Food security and supply Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Who Really Feeds the World?
Book Synopsis'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' The Guardian 'A star among environmental, activist, and anti-corporate circles.' Vice The world’s food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity’s ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, globalized agricultural industry, whose relentless pursuit of profit is stretching our planet’s ecosystems to breaking point. Rising food prices have fuelled instability across the world, while industrialized agriculture has contributed to a health crisis of massive proportions, with effects ranging from obesity and diabetes to cancers caused by pesticides. In Who Really Feeds the World?, leading environmentalist Vandana Shiva rejects the dominant, greed-driven paradigm of industrial agriculture, arguing instead for a radical rethink of our relationship with food and with the environment. Industrial agriculture can never be truly sustainable, but it is within our power to create a food system that works for the health and well-being of the planet and all humanity, by developing ecologically friendly farming practices, nurturing biodiversity, and recognizing the invaluable role that small farmers can play in feeding a hungry world.Trade ReviewThe South's best-known environmentalist. * New Internationalist *This is a tour de force that will stimulate and inspire readers to be part of the positive changes towards a better way of living, growing and eating. * Organic NZ *A world leading expert on food sustainability. * Refinery 29 *One of the world's most prominent radical scientists. * The Guardian *If humans survive this century, it will be in no small measure due to the work of Vandana Shiva, one of today's most important writers, thinkers, and activists. Her work is relentlessly compassionate, courageous, and bitingly clear. This profound book should be required reading for anyone who grows – or eats – food. * Derrick Jensen, author of The Myth of Human Supremacy *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Agroecology feeds the world, not a violent knowledge paradigm 2. Living soil feeds the world, not chemical fertilizers 3. Bees and butterflies feed the world, not poisons and pesticides 4. Biodiversity feeds the world, not toxic monocultures 5. Small-scale farmers feed the world, not large-scale industrial farms 6. Seed freedom feeds the world, not seed dictatorship 7. Localization feeds the world, not globalization 8. Women feed the world, not corporations 9. The way forward
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Anthem Press Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East
Book Synopsis‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa’ studies the political economy of agrarian transformation in the eponymous regions. Examining Egypt and Tunisia in detail as case studies, it critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty. Egypt and Tunisia are located in the context of the broader Middle East and broader processes of war, environmental transformation and economic reform. The book contributes to uncovering the historical backdrop and contemporary pressures in the Middle East and North Africa for the uprisings of 2010 and 2011. It also explores the continued failure of post-uprising counter-revolutionary governments to directly address issues of rural development that put the position and role of small farmers centre stage.Trade Review"Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a timely and powerful contribution that helps us understand the socio-ecological fragility of the region. It locates current and speculative food crisis within debates of agrarian transformations and food systems. It fills a gap in critical agrarian studies given that discussions on the relation between the political economy of agriculture, farming and food security in the MENA region have been nearly absent from critical agrarian debates in leading peasant studies journals". — Yasmine Moataz Ahmed (2020): Food insecurity and revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: agrarian questions in Egypt and Tunisia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1846673Climate and CapitalismExamines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. The authors explore the continued failure of post-uprising counter-revolutionary governments to directly address issues of rural development that put the position and role of small farmers centre stage‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa is a powerful corrective to conventional wisdom that small-scale farming systems are unable to anchor meaningful and sustaining development paths. Invoking recurrent peasant resistances in Egypt and Tunisia, Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush assess the impacts of global value relations and imperial ideologies of “food security” on state formation, land politicisation and agrarian underdevelopment.’ — Philip McMichael, Author of Food Regimes and Agrarian QuestionsThis book definitively rescues the question of food security from apolitical, neoliberal discourse by offering solid and long-awaited critical class analysis of the agrarian question in two most important countries in the region. A classic.' — Maha Abdelrahman, Reader in Development Studies and Middle East Politics, University of Cambridge, UK‘This is an important and innovative book highlighting the importance of the agrarian question in the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Offering a systematic critique of food security policies, Ayeb and Bush meticulously describe uneven rural development and point, convincingly, to food sovereignty as an alternative. A must-read!’ — Sami Zemni, Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Centre for Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent, BelgiumIn Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush undertake the ambitious project of surveying and analyzing data on agrarian systems in Egypt and Tunisia from the 1800s to the present moment. The book will be particularly useful for students and scholars in Middle Eastern area studies, history, or political science who want to incorporate food and agricultural systems into their understandings of the MENA. This book would be an appropriate core text in an undergraduate survey course on political economy in the MENA. It could also provide important supplements to undergraduate and graduate food studies courses, which often focus on the United States, Mexico, and western Europe, by introducing topics of food insecurity, food sovereignty, and agricultural policies in the MENA. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2020.094.039In Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush undertake the ambitious project of surveying and analyzing data on agrarian systems in Egypt and Tunisia from the 1800s to the present moment. They argue that policies on farming and agriculture, both in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and internationally, often occlude farmers’ voices, and that Egypt and Tunisia have been incorporated into the world economy in ways that have negatively affected small-scale farmers. A focus on export-driven economies, cash and monocropping, nationalization and collectivization of agricultural land, and adjustment programs driven by international financial institutions, especially the World Bank and USAID, undermine family farms and peasant livelihoods in Egypt and Tunisia. - Jennifer R. Shutek, New York University, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Volume 9, Issue 4, Summer 2020, pp 343 - 346.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Agrarian Transformations and Modernisations; 2. War, Economic Reform and Environmental Crisis; 3. The Agrarian Origins of Regime Change; 4. Food Security in Egypt and Tunisia; 5. Farmers and Farming: Tunisia; 6. Farmers and Farming: Egypt; 7. Food Sovereignty; References; Index.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Hybridization of Food Governance: Trends, Types
Book SynopsisModern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book deftly analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance. Split into three parts, chapters focus on the legitimacy and integrity of private food governance, the hybridization of EU Food Law and hybridization in transnational food governance. Within these key areas, food scholars from diverse disciplinary fields present a fascinating array of original empirical case studies, showing hybrid governance arrangements in China, Europe and North America. Through these practical examples, they consider in detail how the responsibilities and risks inherent in these arrangements are allocated, how their legitimacy is ensured and the effect that they have on industry and government practice. Timely and discerning, this book will appeal to legal students and scholars focusing on regulation and governance and, in particular, those considering its relation to food. It will also provide guidance to policymakers on how to shape and direct the trends, types and outcomes of hybrid food governance.Contributors include: D. Casey, E. Fagotto, M. Faure, A. Fearne, M. Garcia, T. Havinga, M. Hussein, A. Kalfagianni, K. Kindji, K. Kirezieva, K. Kottenstede, P. Luning, T.D. Lytton, L.K. McAllister, T.A. Roche, E. Thomann, B.M.J. van der Meulen, P. VerbruggenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Hybridization of food governance: an analytical framework Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga PART I legitimacy and integrity of private food governance 2. Structuring private food governance: GLOBALGAP and the legitimating role of the state and rule intermediaries Donal Casey 3. Resolving gaps in third-party certification for food safety hybridization Elena Fagotto 4. Oversight of private food safety auditing in the United States: A hybrid approach to auditor conflict of interest Timothy D. Lytton and Lesley K. McAllister 5. Hybridity in action: Accountability dilemmas of public and for-profit food safety inspectors in Switzerland Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager PART II Hybridisation of EU Food Law 6. Responsibility in EU food law Bernd M.J. van der Meulen 7. Management-based regulation of food safety in the United Kingdom Mohamud Hussein, Marian Garcia Martinez and Andrew Fearne 8. The influence of context on food safety governance: Bridging the gap between policy and quality management Klementina Kirezieva and Pieternel Luning PART III Hybridisation in transnational food governance 9. The Global Food Safety Initiative and state actors: Paving the way for hybrid food safety governance Tetty Havinga and Paul Verbruggen 10. Transnational private food standards in the People’s Republic: Hybridization with Chinese characteristics Kai Kottenstede 11. Domestic responses to transnational private governance: The Marine Stewardship Council in Alaska, Australia and Ecuador Agni Kalfagianni and Tiffany Andrade Roche 12. Overcoming food safety challenges through regulatory cooperation: Evidence from the UEMOA Kévine Kindji and Michael Faure Index
£111.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Trade and Food Security: Exploring
Book SynopsisIf you care about food security in Asia and particularly rice and world trade, buy this book. The best authors in the business (legal, academic and private sector) have contributed to its success with 12 treatises on core issues. I complement the editors of this compendium, Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade, for their intellectual courage in bringing these experts to contribute to one book. The technical side of these issues have been kept at a minimum wherever possible for the general reader. Each chapter relates to the others and guides us to some conclusions and a call to action.'- Milo Hamilton, Firstgrain, US'This is a complete recipe for global food security as the most credible way forward in a world of continuously uncertain food supplies. Today the overall intact agricultural production potential appears mainly threatened by location-specific climate change challenges and by both national and international food policy governance failures. Hence, the role of trade and of trade rules is all the more important, as credibly emphasised by the authors' consequent advocacy for a removal of food trade barriers as part of a more coherent poverty strategy and towards collective food security.'- Christian Häberli, Bern University, Switzerland'Food security is one of the key challenges the world faces. The demand for food will increase as our population goes up from 7 billion to 9 billion. Global warming and an increasingly erratic weather pattern will have an impact on food production. It is in this context that I welcome this important book. The editors have rightly invited us to refocus our minds from self-sufficiency to collective food security.'- Tommy Koh, Chairman of the Governing Board Centre for International Law, National University of SingaporeFood security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency.This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself.Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment, law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region rice.It suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from the national to the regional and even the global level. It also provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of collective food security should be understood and developed.The book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as trade and food security specialists by providing expert analyses and enlightening solutions for the future.Contributors: C. Boonekamp, R.M. Briones, R. Clarete, D. Dixit, M. Ewing-Chow, L.A. Jackson, J. Jackson Ewing, J. McVitty, E. Rogerson, J. Tijaja, C.P. Timmer, M. Vilarasau SladeTrade Review‘If you care about food security in Asia and particularly rice and world trade, buy this book. The best authors in the business (legal, academic and private sector) have contributed to its success with 12 treatises on core issues. I compliment the editors of this compendium, Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade, for their intellectual courage in bringing these experts to contribute to one book. The technical side of these issues have been kept at a minimum wherever possible for the general reader. Each chapter relates to the others and guides us to some conclusions and a call to action.’ -- Milo Hamilton, Firstgrain, US‘This is a complete recipe for global food security as the most credible way forward in a world of continuously uncertain food supplies. Today the overall intact agricultural production potential appears mainly threatened by location-specific climate change challenges and by both national and international food policy governance failures. Hence, the role of trade and of trade rules is all the more important, as credibly emphasised by the authors’ consequent advocacy for a removal of food trade barriers as part of a more coherent poverty strategy and towards collective food security.’ -- Christian Häberli, Bern University, Switzerland‘Food security is one of the key challenges the world faces. The demand for food will increase as our population goes up from 7 billion to 9 billion. Global warming and an increasingly erratic weather pattern will have an impact on food production. It is in this context that I welcome this important book. The editors have rightly invited us to refocus our minds from self-sufficiency to collective food security’ -- Tommy Koh, Chairman of the Governing Board Centre for International Law, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Setting the Stage: The Problem with Self-sufficiency and the Need for Collective Food Security for a Global Crisis Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade PART I 1. Food Security Issues and the Role of the Multilateral Trading System Evan Rogerson and Diwakar Dixit 2. Global Value Chains in the Food Sector Julia Tijaja 3. Food Security Initiatives in Asia and the Impact of WTO Regulation Roehlano M. Briones 4. A Case Study of Regional Food Security: APTERR Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade PART II 5. Managing Food Price Volatility in Asia: Why, What and How? C. Peter Timmer 6. Deepening ASEAN Rice Trade Ramon L. Clarete 7. A Private Sector View of Food Security and Pricing Volatility James McVitty PART III 8. Food Security and Limits to Resources Lee Ann Jackson 9. Environmental Change, Food Security and Trade in Southeast Asia J. Jackson Ewing 10. Is there a Role for International Law in Supporting Systemic Solutions to the Food Security Challenge? Melanie Vilarasau Slade PART IV 11. The WTO and Food Security – and a Possible Step Forward Clemens Boonekamp 12. Conclusion: Moving to Collective Food Security Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade Index
£95.00
Oneworld Publications Ending Hunger: The quest to feed the world
Book Synopsis‘A provocative vision.’ Sunday Times In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases billions of tons of carbon into the world, and it’s only getting worse. The writing is on the wall: our food system must change. But no one can agree on how. With his trademark counterintuition, Anthony Warner reveals that we have the ability to make a world where no one starves. And one where we don’t feel guilty about tucking in.Trade Review‘A provocative vision.’ * Sunday Times *‘This is an important book, and a good one. It’s ambitious and well-researched and timely… Food science can be a dry topic, but Warner manages to make it an entertaining one.’ -- Spectator on The Angry Chef
£15.29
CABI Publishing GM Agriculture and Food Security: Fears and Facts
Book SynopsisEfforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory, evidence and rhetoric of the impact of food production on the environment, and the impact of the environment on food production. The chapters address: food security and technology; expertise and opportunism; the promise of technology; the politicization of risk; industrial agriculture; the meaning of 'natural'; the potential of the local food movement; food labelling; genetic diversity in the agro-industrial era; sustainability and chemical application; plant vitality; and future prospects for food security. Each chapter includes a personal introduction from the authors about the issues at hand, followed by a detailed analysis with further references. The book considers the origins of concerns and then examines the evidence around the issues, and the impacts in terms of policy, regulation and agricultural practice. It also: - Refutes common consumer and environmental organization myths about biotechnology. - Highlights the importance of food security in both the developing and developed world. - Provides a pro-science approach to increasing food security. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in biotechnology, food security and public understanding of science, and also to policy makers, regulators and industry managers.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Food Security and Technology: Fear Trumps Hope Chapter 2: Expertise and Opportunism: Who Should We Listen To? Chapter 3: The Technology Promise: How Can We Feed a World of More Than 9 Billion? Chapter 4: The Politicization of Risk: Is It Safe? Chapter 5: Industrial Agriculture: Who Is the Real Winner? Chapter 6: The Nature of Natural: Whose Preferences Should Dominate? Chapter 7: The Local Food Movement: Can We Be Self-Sufficient? Chapter 8: Food Labelling: What Do People Want? Chapter 9: Genetic Diversity in the Agro-Industrial Era: What Is at Risk? Chapter 10: The Sustainability Challenge: Are We Facing a Chemical Armageddon? Chapter 11: Plant Vitality: Will ‘Superweeds’ Strangle Our Future? Chapter 12: The Future of Food Security: Where to From Here?
£93.87
CABI Publishing GM Agriculture and Food Security: Fears and Facts
Book SynopsisEfforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory, evidence and rhetoric of the impact of food production on the environment, and the impact of the environment on food production. The chapters address: food security and technology; expertise and opportunism; the promise of technology; the politicization of risk; industrial agriculture; the meaning of 'natural'; the potential of the local food movement; food labelling; genetic diversity in the agro-industrial era; sustainability and chemical application; plant vitality; and future prospects for food security. Each chapter includes a personal introduction from the authors about the issues at hand, followed by a detailed analysis with further references. The book considers the origins of concerns and then examines the evidence around the issues, and the impacts in terms of policy, regulation and agricultural practice. It also: - Refutes common consumer and environmental organization myths about biotechnology. - Highlights the importance of food security in both the developing and developed world. - Provides a pro-science approach to increasing food security. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in biotechnology, food security and public understanding of science, and also to policy makers, regulators and industry managers.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Food Security and Technology: Fear Trumps Hope Chapter 2: Expertise and Opportunism: Who Should We Listen To? Chapter 3: The Technology Promise: How Can We Feed a World of More Than 9 Billion? Chapter 4: The Politicization of Risk: Is It Safe? Chapter 5: Industrial Agriculture: Who Is the Real Winner? Chapter 6: The Nature of Natural: Whose Preferences Should Dominate? Chapter 7: The Local Food Movement: Can We Be Self-Sufficient? Chapter 8: Food Labelling: What Do People Want? Chapter 9: Genetic Diversity in the Agro-Industrial Era: What Is at Risk? Chapter 10: The Sustainability Challenge: Are We Facing a Chemical Armageddon? Chapter 11: Plant Vitality: Will ‘Superweeds’ Strangle Our Future? Chapter 12: The Future of Food Security: Where to From Here?
£41.70
CABI Publishing Sustainable Diets: Linking Nutrition and Food
Book SynopsisThis book takes a transdisciplinary approach and considers multisectoral actions, integrating health, agriculture and environmental sector issues to comprehensively explore the topic of sustainable diets. The team of international authors informs readers with arguments, challenges, perspectives, policies, actions and solutions on global topics that must be properly understood in order to be effectively addressed. They position issues of sustainable diets as central to the Earth's future. Presenting the latest findings, they: - Explore the transition to sustainable diets within the context of sustainable food systems, addressing the right to food, and linking food security and nutrition to sustainability. - Convey the urgency of coordinated action, and consider how to engage multiple sectors in dialogue and joint research to tackle the pressing problems that have taken us to the edge, and beyond, of the planet's limits to growth. - Review tools, methods and indicators for assessing sustainable diets. - Describe lessons learned from case studies on both traditional food systems and current dietary challenges. As an affiliated project of the One Planet Sustainable Food Systems Programme, this book provides a way forward for achieving global and local targets, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition commitments. This resource is essential reading for scientists, practitioners, and students in the fields of nutrition science, food science, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, development studies, food studies, public health and food policy.Table of ContentsPART I: GRAND CHALLENGES 1: Sustainable Diets: a Bundle of Problems (Not One) in Search of Answers 2: Sustainable Diets: the Public Health Perspective 3: The Challenges of Sustainable Food Systems Where Food Security Meets Sustainability – What are Countries Doing? 4: Climate Change and Sustainable and Healthy Diets 5: Biodiversity Loss: We Need to Move from Uniformity to Diversity 6: Agroecology and Nutrition: Transformative Possibilities and Challenges 7: Indigenous Food Systems: Contributions to Sustainable Food Systems and Sustainable Diets 8: Can Cities from the Global South be the Drivers of Sustainable Food Systems? 9: Consumer-level Food Waste Prevention and Reduction Towards Sustainable Diets PART II: SUSTAINABLE DIETS: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 10: Attaining a Healthy and Sustainable Diet 11: Highlighting Interlinkages Between Sustainable Diets and Sustainable Food Systems 12: Understanding the Food Environment: the Role of Practice Theory and Policy Implications 13: Sustainable Diets: Social and Cultural Perspectives 14: Nutritional Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet 15: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Diets 16: Sustainable Diets and Food-based Dietary Guidelines 17: Costs and Benefits of Sustainable Diets: Impacts for the Environment, Society and Public Health Nutrition PART III: MOVING FORWARD 18: The One Planet Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme as a Multi-stakeholder Platform for a Systemic Approach 19: The Med Diet 4.0 Framework: a Multidimensional Driver for Revitalizing the Mediterranean Diet as a Sustainable Diet Model 20: Traditional Foods at the Epicentre of Sustainable Food Systems 21: Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): a Legacy for Food and Nutrition Security 22: Sustainability Along All Value Chains: Exploring Value Chain Interactions in Sustainable Food Systems 23: Sustainable and Healthy Gastronomy in Costa Rica: Betting on Sustainable Diets 24: How Organic Food Systems Support Sustainability of Diets 25: Institutional Food Procurement for Promoting Sustainable Diets 26: Renewing Partnerships with Non-state Actors for Sustainable Diets through Sustainable Agriculture 27: Decalogue of Gran Canaria for Sustainable Food and Nutrition in the Community 28: Ten Years to Achieve Transformational Change: the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025 29: Towards a Code of Conduct for Sustainable Diets
£46.98
CABI Publishing Fair Trade and Organic Agriculture: A Winning
Book SynopsisThe markets for organic and fair trade certified commodities are growing rapidly, with environmentally sound and more equitable certification systems likely to offer benefits for both small-scale farmers and society at large. Despite much debate about their contribution to sustainability, there has been little scientific analysis, so it is vital to assess if it is technically and economically feasible to meet growing consumer demands regarding food safety, quality and ethics through smallholder and marginal producers. Overall, there is a need to explore the potential of these certification systems as emerging areas in research and development cooperation. This book includes: - Worldwide case studies (from the supply side in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and from the demand side in Europe and North America) to put theory into practice. - Analyses of sustainable development and poverty reduction through organic and fair trade markets. - Insights into the conditions where it is beneficial for developing country smallholder producers to adopt fair trade and organic certification systems. - Investigation into whether consumers will pay more for a product that is both organic and fair trade certified. This book is an important read for researchers and students in agricultural and development economics, and it is also a useful resource for policy makers and practitioners involved in organic and fair trade agriculture.Table of Contents1: An Overview of Organic Agriculture and Fair Trade Systems 2: Organic and Fair Trade Markets at a Glance 3: Organic and Fair Trade Production Worldwide 4: Evolution of Producer Organizations in Fair Trade Coffee Certification 5: Methodological Toolbox 6: Consumer Behaviour in the Organic and Fair Trade Food Market in Europe 7: Multiple Certifications and Consumer Purchase Decisions: a Case Study of Willingness to Pay for Coffee in Germany 8: Consumers’ Information Search and Preferences for Fair Trade Coffee: a Case Study from Germany 9: Gender-equality Chocolate: a Missing Market? 10: Fair Trade Certification on Plantations: Household Wealth and Welfare Implications for Hired Labour 11: Assessing the Benefits of Organic and Fair Trade Production for Small-scale Farmers in Asia 12: The Impact of Certification on Material Input Costs in India 13: Dovetailing Fair Trade and Organic Agro-certifications in Latin America: How the Twins Can Meet? 14: Certifying Coffee Cooperatives in Ethiopia, India and Nicaragua: How Far Do Small-scale Coffee Producers Benefit? 15: The Relevance of Reliability, Reputation and Respect for Producer-level Benefits of Organic and Fair Trade Certification for Smallholders 16: The Way Forward
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CABI Publishing Fight Against Food Shortages and Surpluses, The:
Book SynopsisThe price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. The challenge is for governments to manage food and farming so that there are neither food shortages nor food surpluses. This book explores how governments can do this and uses theory and evidence to address major ideologies and global problems anew by: - Exploring the causes, consequence and potential for moderation of food price volatility. - Evaluating the various policy tools that have been proposed to eliminate hunger and reduce volatility. - Concluding with a practical strategy to moderate volatility - grain buffer stocks. In so doing the book addresses a core question: how can prices be managed for the benefit of consumers and farmers without impairing the efficiency of the market? Authored by an agricultural economist with thirty years of practical experience in farm policy, this book will assist governments in the design of their food and agricultural policies. Requiring no prior knowledge of economics, it is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of economics, international and sustainable development, agriculture, and food security.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Grain in the world Chapter 3: The pattern of grain prices Chapter 4: The root cause of unstable grain prices Chapter 5: Unstable grain prices – who wins? who loses? Chapter 6: Stabilising grain prices in a closed economy Chapter 7: A model of the international grain market Chapter 8: Stabilising grain prices in an open economy Chapter 9: Buffer stocks – technical and legal aspects Chapter 10: Attitudes towards price stabilisation and buffer stocks Chapter 11: Conclusion
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global
Book SynopsisThe ways in which rapid urbanization of the Global South are transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.Starting from the premise that food security in urban areas is primarily a challenge of food access, the chapters explore the various economic, social, and governance policies and structures that constrain and inhibit the access of all to food of sufficient quantity and quality. As the Global South continues to urbanize, the challenge of feeding hungry cities will become even more daunting, and this Handbook explains why the existing food system, although undergoing rapid change, is inadequate for this task and cannot meet the challenge without substantial reform.The Handbook as a whole, and the individual chapters, provide comprehensive overviews of relevant themes mixed with empirical, real-world examples for university readership teaching and taking courses on food systems, migration and urbanization, urban policy and planning, geography, agricultural economics, public health, and international development. It will also introduce practitioners to current debates in the field and provide strong support for the renewed, and growing, focus on the food security of urban populations.The Handbook's comprehensive overviews of relevant themes mixed with empirical, real-world examples are ideal for university readership. It will also introduce practitioners to current debates in the field and provide strong support for the renewed, and growing, focus on the food security of urban populations.Trade Review'With global rates of food insecurity surging, now more than ever we need to better understand the critical shifts impacting food systems around the world. Including essays from an impressive set of contributors, the Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South explores how and why hunger and malnutrition is on the rise in cities across the Global South. This is a must read for food security policymakers, scholars and students.' -- William G. Moseley, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, and Director of the Program for Food, Agriculture & Society, Macalester College, US'This book challenges conventional thinking about food security as primarily a problem of limited food production. It shows the complexity and interconnectedness of urban food security issues, and the power of the globalized industrial food systems that frame the growing food insecurity of cities of the global South. It shows decisively that tackling urban food security demands moving beyond the search for new "green revolutions".' -- Bill Adams, Emeritus Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to urban food security in the Global South 1 Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Gareth Haysom 2 Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts 23 Cecilia Tacoli 3 Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world 34 James Tefft and Marketa Jonasova 4 An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins 62 Tony Weis, Marylynn Steckley and Bruce Frayne 5 Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity : Trends for low-income and middle-income countries 79 Susan Horton 6 Scales of (in)action at the climate change–food security nexus in cities 94 Carrie L. Mitchell, Joanne Fitzgibbons, Kristen Regier and Siya Agarwal 7 The “supermarket revolution” in the South 113 Reena das Nair 8 Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains 145 Thomas Reardon 9 Food systems at the rural–urban interface 166 Felicity J. Proctor and Julio A. Berdegué 10 The urban informal food sector in the Global South 198 Graeme Young and Jonathan Crush 11 The gender–urban-food interface in the Global South 218 Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson 12 Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries 233 Piero Conforti, Giulia Ponzini and Alberto Zezza 13 Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of the Global South 261 Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera 14 Food remittances and food security 282 Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar 15 Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South 307 Jodi Koberinski, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott 16 Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South 328 Daniel N. Warshawsky 17 The planned “city region” in the New Urban Agenda : An appropriate framing for urban food security? 341 Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson 18 Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South 363 Gareth Haysom 19 Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor : Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps 380 Marie T. Ruel, Jef L. Leroy, Olivier Ecker, Manuel Hernandez, Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow Index 397
£168.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Agricultural Law and Policy: A
Book SynopsisFrom soil degradation and biodiversity loss to the coexistence of malnutrition and obesity, many of the largest challenges facing humanity today are underpinned by food and agriculture systems. In order to alleviate and resolve them, global governance of food and agriculture needs to be reformed. Unravelling the array of international regulatory instruments, this timely book provides the first systematic analysis of the international law surrounding food systems.International Agricultural Law and Policy provides a systems-based analysis of the rules that intersect with the physical elements of agriculture against a framework of commonly held norms. The author conducts a comprehensive examination not only of the rules, but also the implementation and broader socioeconomic, scientific and political context. By, exploring and clarifying the relationship between food security and the right to food and sustainability, Johnson closes the gap between the disparate international rules that govern food and agriculture, while exploring the practical implications of these overlapping regimes.This unique book is an invaluable resource for lawyers and social scientists working within food and agriculture systems and their governance and lays the much-needed groundwork for future research. For policy makers in the food and agricultural space, this book provides a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the global regulatory landscape that influences law and policy processes.Trade Review‘This book gives a wide-ranging view of recent agricultural challenges in the agricultural law arena. The book is insightful and worth reading for legal and non-legal members of government, academia, and professionals who either work or are interested in agricultural study.’ -- Eva Johan, Asian Journal of International Law‘Given the important need to consider the future for food security and agriculture globally, Hope Johnson’s book should be considered a valuable contribution to the subject matter.’ -- Andrew Chalet, Law Institute Journal'To understand how international law helps or hinders food security, a systemic account of the existing fragmented laws and institutions is needed, which should include at the very least trade, investment, environment, human rights and climate agreements. Hope Johnson does this and more, using a policy-oriented approach that places agriculture at the centre. The result is a compelling case for a broader inclusion of the subjects and objects of international regulation, and an enhanced participation of food insecure groups and countries.' --Margaret Young, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A human rights-based approach to regulating food systems for food security 3. Land 4. Soils 5. Water 6. Seeds 7. Pesticides 8. World Trade 9. Conclusion and recommendations Index
£114.00
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited Developing Smart Agri-Food Supply Chains: Using
Book SynopsisThe safety of agri-food supply chains remains under constant threat from risks such as food adulteration, malicious contamination, microbiological and chemical hazards, as well as the presence of foreign bodies in food products.Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality provides an authoritative assessment of recent developments to improve safety and quality at key points in the agri-food supply chain. This collection provides a comprehensive coverage of the methods used in tracking and traceability (including detecting genetically-modified organisms in food products), ways of assessing product integrity, dealing with malicious contamination as well as quality assessment and ensuring transparency in supply chains.Edited by Professor Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK, Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality will be a standard reference for those researching food safety, agri-food logistics and supply chains in universities or other research centres, as well as government and commercial agencies responsible for safety and quality monitoring of agri-food supply chains. It will also be a key reference for supply chain actors, from farmers to food processors and retailers.Table of ContentsPart 1 Tracking and traceability1.Advances in traceability systems in agri-food supply chains: Samantha Islam, University of Cambridge, UK; Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK; and Jonathan M. Cullen, University of Cambridge, UK; 2.Advances in fingerprint and rapid methods for improved traceability in agri-food supply chains: Daniel Cozzolino, Heather E. Smyth and Yasmina Sultanbawa, ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods and Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Australia; 3.Advances in identifying GM plants: current frame of the detection of transgenic GMOs: Yves Bertheau, INRA Honorary Directeur de recherche, Honorary Scientist at Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, France; 4.Advances in identifying GM plants: toward the routine detection of 'hidden' and 'new' GMOs: Yves Bertheau, INRA Honorary Directeur de recherche, Honorary Scientist at Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, France;Part 2 Product integrity and malicious contamination5.Foodomics: Advances in product testing in agri-food supply chains: Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK;6.Key challenges and developments in non-targeted methods or systems to identify food adulteration: Sara Erasmus and Saskia van Ruth, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands; 7.Advances in identifying and tracking malicious contamination of food in agri-food supply chains: Marta Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy; and Jason C. White, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA; 8.The role of technology in crisis management and product recall in food supply chains: Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK; and Aleksandra Kowalska, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland; Part 3 Safety, quality and smart systems9.Sampling and statistics in assessment of fresh produce: K. B. Walsh, Central Queensland University, Australia; and V. A. McGlone and M. Wohlers, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, New Zealand; 10.Developing decision support systems for crop yield forecasts: Lin Liu, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, USA; and Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, USA; 11.Smart post-harvest technology to maintain quality and safety in fresh produce supply chains: James Monaghan, Harper Adams University, UK; 12.Advances in techniques for identifying and tracking foreign bodies in agri-food supply chains: Ilija Djekic, University of Belgrade, Serbia; 13.The use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve transparency in agri-food supply chains: Rounaq Nayak, Harper Adams University, UK; 14.Drivers of farmers’ usage of digital marketplace platform: evidence from India: Arpita Agnihotri, Penn State Harrisburg, USA; and Saurabh Bhattacharya, Newcastle University Business School, UK;
£150.00
Royal Society of Chemistry DNA Techniques to Verify Food Authenticity:
Book SynopsisThe food supply chain needs to reassure consumers and businesses about the safety and standards of food. Global estimates of the cost of food fraud to economies run into billions of dollars hence a huge surge in interest in food authenticity and means of detecting and preventing food fraud and food crime. Approaches targeting DNA markers have assumed a pre-eminence. This book is the most comprehensive and timely collection of material from those working at the forefront of DNA techniques applied to food authenticity. Addressing the new field of analytical molecular biology as it combines the quality assurance rigour of analytical chemistry with DNA techniques, it introduces the science behind DNA as a target analyte, its extraction, amplification, detection and quantitation as applied to the detection of food fraud and food crime. Making the link with traditional forensic DNA profiling and describing emerging and cutting-edge techniques such as next generation sequencing, this book presents real-world case studies from a wide perspective including from analytical service providers, industry, enforcement agencies and academics. It will appeal to food testing laboratories worldwide, who are just starting to use these techniques and students of molecular biology, food science and food integrity. Food policy professionals and regulatory organisations who will be using these techniques to back up legislation and regulation will find the text invaluable. Those in the food industry in regulatory and technical roles will want to have this book on their desks.Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious book. The scope ranges from the basic science and history of DNA testing to cutting‐edge techniques and case studies. It aims to be the go‐to reference for testing laboratories new to the DNA field, for people in food industry technical roles, for students and for regulators; it is likely to be a well‐thumbed fixture on their desk. The book achieves its aim of providing something for everyone, over a very wide target audience.Throughout the book, the underlying theme is consistently stressed: that the rigour traditionally applied to analytical quality control must equally be applied to DNA‐based methods. -- John Points, Newbury, UK * https://doi.org/10.1002/fsat.3401_16.x *Table of ContentsThe Role of DNA Analysis in the Determination of Food Authenticity; Forensic DNA - Criminal and Paternity Methods and Applications - How Can This Help in Verifying Food Authenticity?; DNA Extraction from Food Matrices; "DNA Techniques" Case Study: Isothermal Approaches; Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) - General Aspects and Applications; UK Food Authenticity Programme - The Analytical Tool Box; Fitness for Purpose of DNA-based Analytical Methods; GMO Detection and Identification Using Next-generation Sequencing; A Perspective on Quantitative DNA Approaches; DNA in Food and Feed Law; Case Studies: Harmonising DNA Methods - The GMO Story; Metrology of DNA Approaches; The Almond and Mahaleb Allergen Story - PCR Resolution of Live Incident Investigations; Food Fraud Prevention - Selecting the Right Test, Method, and Sampling Plan; Meat Speciation; The Horse Meat Scandal - The European Analytical Response; Horse Meat: Technical Appeals and Court Action; Durum Wheat and Pasta Authenticity; The Authenticity of Basmati Rice - A Case Study; Horse Meat: The International Collaborative Trial of the Real-time PCR Method for the Quantitation of Horse DNA; Standardization of DNA-based Methods for Food Authenticity Testing; Authentication of Chinese Traditional Medicine by DNA Analysis; DNA Point of Use Applications; Commercial DNA Testing; EU Food Integrity and Joining up the Landscape (EU Perspective); The Food Authenticity Network; A Vision for the Future
£141.55
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Food Loss and Food Waste: Causes and Solutions
Book SynopsisGlobal food insecurity is a growing issue. At a time when the world's population is increasing and agricultural production is challenged by climate change, it is estimated that around a third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. This book examines the problem of food loss and waste (FLW) and the policies that could be enacted to remedy this fundamental global concern.Michael Blakeney provides a well-rounded view of FLW from production to plate. He begins by examining the problems associated with defining and measuring food waste, arguing that more reliable data on FLW is key to the creation of effective FLW reduction policies. He goes on to address the drivers of FLW, the environmental impacts of FLW and the moral and ethical considerations that are linked to the issue. Food Loss and Waste concludes with a critical assessment of FLW reduction strategies across the food supply chain.Providing the first comprehensive assessment of FLW and its remedies, this book will be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of food security, agricultural law and policy and rural economics. Policy makers involved in food policy and security will also find this a valuable resource as it identifies and analyses FLW policies on an international scale.Trade Review'Food waste is a problem of staggering global size. In this tour de force Michael Blakeney unravels the networked complexity of the problem and advances creative regulatory solutions for helping to reduce the scale of the problem.' --Peter Drahos, European University Institute, Italy'The subject of food waste is increasingly compelling the attention of policy makers and stakeholders along the food supply chain. In the absence of a developed literature on the subject, Professor Blakeney's book provides a comprehensive review of the drivers of food waste and remedies for its minimization. It also provides valuable insights into the formulation of food waste policy.' --Kadambot Siddique, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Food Loss and Waste and Food Security 2. Definitions and Metrics 3. Environmental Impacts 4. Drivers of Food Waste 5. Ethical Issues 6. Regulatory Options 7. Strategies for FLW Reduction 8. Policy Formulation Index
£89.00
Reaktion Books Why Waste Food?
Book SynopsisAbout one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental and ethical reasons to not waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone in the world, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition or food insecurity. Together it accounts for about 8 per cent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. So, if wasting food is such a patently bad idea, why do we discard so much? In Why Waste Food?, Andrew F. Smith investigates one of today’s most pressing topics, examining the causes of avoidable food waste across the supply chain, and highlighting the ways in which we can all do something to tackle this global concern.Trade Review"In this fact-filled account, Smith surveys the food system from farm to fork, describing the many ways in which food is wasted, even though wasting food is in no one’s interest, while finding reasons for hope through the many community and corporate initiatives to reduce waste. The book contains some jaw-dropping statistics." * OxVeg News *“A no-nonsense practical guide for solving one of the most pressing agricultural, environmental, and social problems of our time. Smith outlines the enormity of the problem—on farms, in our homes, in retail and food service—and warns that there is no silver bullet to making sure food is valued, preserved, and appreciated. All of us—policy makers, businesses, producers, and eaters—need to be part of the solution.” -- Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank
£13.26
Berghahn Books Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First
Book Synopsis Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives provides a global outlook on sustainability issues. These case studies will appeal to those working in public sector agencies, NGOs, consultancies and other bodies focused on food security, human nutrition and environmental sustainability.Trade Review “[This book] provides a holistic understanding of food-related activities and behaviour … both theoretical and empirical arguments are covered in a balanced manner. The volume takes cognisance of the ‘minutiae of food experiences’ (p. 19) of people with respect to sustainability, cutting across the globe.” • European Association of Social Anthropologists Journal “Contains a valuable and diverse set of essays that will help readers to understand the complexities of sustainable food and food systems and to advance cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons.” • Ellen Messer, Food AnthropologistTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Introduction: Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Chapter 1. Towards a Cross-disciplinary Approach to Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Chapter 2. Food Insecurity and Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa Paul Collinson Chapter 3. From Healthy to Sustainable: Transforming the Concept of the Mediterranean Diet from Health to Sustainability through Culture F. Xavier Medina Chapter 4. Cultures of Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Understanding Organic Food in Palermo Giovanni Orlando Chapter 5. Wild Phytogenetic Resources for Food in the Barranca del Rίo Santiago, Mexico: A First Approach to Sustainability Martín Tena Meza, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Ricardo Ávila Palafox, Raymundo Villavicencio García Chapter 6. Farm Urban and Urban Aquaponics: Changing Perceptions in Classrooms and Communities Iain Young Chapter 7. ‘Dig for Sustainability’ in the Twenty-first Century: Allotments, Gardens and Television Helen Macbeth Chapter 8. Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century: How Places in the UK are Working to Meet This Challenge Lucy Antal Chapter 9. Food and the Problem of Uncertainty – Refugees and the Sense of Sustainability: The Case of Karen Farmers Returning to Their Villages From Refugee Camps Along the Thai Burmese Border Peter Kaiser Chapter 10. In Praise of a Fermented Bread: An Ethiopian Recipe for Frugal Sustainability Valentina Peveri Chapter 11. The Indian ‘Meat Dilemma’: Malnutrition, Social Hierarchy and Ecological Sustainability Michaël Bruckert Chapter 12. Eating Outside the Home: Food Practices as a Consequence of Economic Crisis in Spain Maria Gracia-Arnaiz Chapter 13. First Steps in Developing a Food Waste Management Strategy in a UK Higher Education Institution: The University of Liverpool Case Study Nick Doran and Iain Young Chapter 14. The Demand for Sustainable Ways of Dealing with Waste from Agriculture and Aquaculture Iain Young Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and
Book Synopsis Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers’ decisions, and cultural notions of “pure” food.Trade Review “The editors have brought together enough international work to form a broad picture of changes in the global food system. This is an extremely welcome view of how those changes were received in different places at different times.” • Technology and Culture “This collection draws insightful genealogies of a persistently virulent problem: food safety. The book brings together a series of well-written and exciting historical cases that together create a picture of the scientific and political struggles for food safety and their obstacles.” • Alexander von Schwerin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science “‘Risk on the Table’ is a perfectly apt title for a book which deals with a major concern of modern societies: What shall we eat? Combining perspectives of ‘food risk’ as a matter of health concerns; environmental issues; and economic, social and employment problems, this book is truly innovative.” • Karin Zachmann, The Technical University of MunichTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Angela N. H. Creager & Jean-Paul Gaudillière Part I: Objectifying Dangers Chapter 1. Salad Days: The Science and Medicine of Bad Greens, 1870–2000 Anne Hardy Chapter 2. Radioactive Diet: Food, Metabolism, and the Environment, c. 1960 Soraya de Chadarevian Chapter 3. Poison and Cancer: The Politics of Food Carcinogens in 1950s West Germany Heiko Stoff Chapter 4. “EAT. DIE.” The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s Angela N. H. Creager Chapter 5. Risk on the Negotiating Table: Malnutrition, Mold Toxicity, and Postcolonial Development Lucas M. Mueller Chapter 6. Contaminated Foods, Global Environmental Health, and the Political Recalcitrance of a Pollution Problem: The Case of PCBs from 1966 to the Present Day Aurélien Féron Part II: Ordering Risks Chapter 7. Trace Amounts at Industrial Scale: Arsenicals and Medicated Feed in the Production of the “Western Diet” Hannah Landecker Chapter 8. Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: Agricultural Antibiotics and US Risk Regulation (1948–77) Claas Kirchhelle Chapter 9. Conflicts of Interest, Ignorance, and Hegemony in the Diethylstilboestral US Food Crisis Jean-Paul Gaudillière Chapter 10. Defining Food Additives: Origins and Shortfalls of the US Regulatory Framework Maricel V. Maffini and Sarah Vogel Chapter 11. The Rise (and Fall) of the Food-Drug Line: Classification, Gatekeepers, and Spatial Mediation in Regulating US Food and Health Markets Xaq Frohlich Afterword Deborah Fitzgerald Index
£96.30
CABI Publishing Food Gardens for a Changing World
Book SynopsisFood gardening is becoming increasingly popular, as people look for new ways to live more sustainably and minimize harm to the environment. This book addresses the 21st century trends which bring new challenges to food gardening - anthropogenic climate change, environmental degradation, natural resource scarcity, and social inequity - and explains the basic biological, ecological and social concepts needed to understand and respond to them. Examples throughout the text demonstrate how to successfully use these concepts, while supporting gardeners' values, and their goals for themselves, their communities and the world.Table of ContentsPART I: Starting at the beginning: gardens and the big picture Chapter 1: What can Food Gardens Contribute? Gardens and Wellbeing Chapter 2: Changes coming to your garden Chapter 3: Responding to change as a food gardening strategy. Appendix - Worked formal garden experiments PART II: Starting the garden Chapter 4: Garden placement Chapter 5: How plants live and grow Chapter 6: Starting and caring for garden plants PART III: Garden management Chapter 7: Soil, nutrients, and organic matter Chapter 8: Water, soils, and plants Chapter 9: Managing pests, pathogens, and beneficial organisms Chapter 10: Saving seeds for planting and sharing
£93.87
CABI Publishing Food Gardens for a Changing World
Book SynopsisFood gardening is becoming increasingly popular, as people look for new ways to live more sustainably and minimize harm to the environment. This book addresses the most pressing challenges facing food gardening in the 21st century - worldwide changes in climate, the environment, natural resources, and communities - and the basic biological, ecological and social concepts which influence our understanding. Examples throughout the text demonstrate how gardeners can use these theories to their advantage.Table of ContentsPART I: Starting at the beginning: gardens and the big picture Chapter 1: What can Food Gardens Contribute? Gardens and Wellbeing Chapter 2: Changes coming to your garden Chapter 3: Responding to change as a food gardening strategy. Appendix - Worked formal garden experiments PART II: Starting the garden Chapter 4: Garden placement Chapter 5: How plants live and grow Chapter 6: Starting and caring for garden plants PART III: Garden management Chapter 7: Soil, nutrients, and organic matter Chapter 8: Water, soils, and plants Chapter 9: Managing pests, pathogens, and beneficial organisms Chapter 10: Saving seeds for planting and sharing
£46.98
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Security and the Environment
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook is divided into thematic sections, examining first the effects of environmental scarcity on security at a macro level before delving into region-specific issues and challenges. The final section investigates the actors, institutions and processes engaged with environmental security, discussing the shifting international political discourse and how this is challenging the conservative military security paradigm.The combination of comparative global analysis alongside regionally focused studies makes this Handbook an invaluable resource for all scholars and students of environment and climate security. It will also be of interest to policy professionals working on issues of environmental scarcity and new security challenges.Trade Review‘The contributors to this edited volume seek to fill the gaps in existing knowledge on these topics, and do so in a creative and well-researched manner, making the book a reliable reference source for further studies in this field.’ -- Fatemeh Shayan, International Affairs'Swain, Öjendal and Jägerskog’s important Handbook brings new debates, new voices and new cases to the growing research literature on environment and security links and threats to human security at local, national, regional and global scale.' -- Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of Massachusetts, US'The editors rightly shine a spotlight on the human security dimensions of environment and security links in this Handbook. This more inclusive approach provides a more complete picture of the multi-layered complexity of connections, avoiding the reductionism that afflicts some treatments of these topics. This Handbook reaches beyond the usual suspects to provide in-depth analysis in a wide range of country level and issue specific chapters.' -- Geoffrey Dabelko, Ohio University, US'The Handbook of Security and the Environment offers a unique perspective on the intersection between the traditional notions of security and emerging concepts of environmental security. It effectively captures the contemporary knowledge base on environmental security and advances it considerably by exploring pragmatic and actionable steps that can enhance the prospects of enduring global peace. The nuanced analysis captures different geographical contexts and international actors, and unpacks innovations in securing environmental resources - notably food, water and energy - against global impacts of climate change, excessive resource exploitation, mass migration, volatility in food prices, and spiking water scarcity.' -- Zafar Adeel, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements xiv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: security and the environment – the link 2 Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog PART II MACRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 2 Scarcity, abundance and migration: the future of environmental security 14 James R. Lee 3 Global climate change and security threats 26 Simon Dalby 4 Global water crises and challenges for water security 40 Larry A. Swatuk 5 Climate change and (in)security in transboundary river basins 62 David Michel, Mats Eriksson and Martina Klimes 6 Revisiting freshwater abundance within the peace and conflict discourse 76 Adan E. Suazo PART III MICRO PROCESSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 7 Environment and security in West Africa: response of the international community and the complexity on the ground 88 Mats Hårsmar 8 Mining, environmental changes and human security in South Africa 103 Sethulego Matebesi 9 Green impunity: measuring ecojustice, institutional capacities and policy design as an approach to environmental security 115 Celeste Cedillo and Juan Antonio Le Clercq 10 Climate change and security threats in Southeast Asia 132 Elliot Brennan 11 Cases and implications of environmental insecurity in Southeast Asia 149 Mely Caballero-Anthony and Margareth Sembiring 12 Environment and energy in Central Asia: challenges and prospects 162 Vakur Sümer, Dauren Aben and Zhengizkhan Zhanaltay 13 Water and environmental security in China 176 Zhijian Wang and Samuel Smith 14 Environment and security in India: a hyphenated discourse 192 Jayati Srivastava 15 Nepal: reflections on the environmental and human security debate 212 Bishnu Raj Upreti 16 Security and environment in the Middle East 228 Nadim Farajalla, Elie Dib, Olivia Macharis and Emil Kaston PART IV ACTORS AND PROCESSES ENGAGED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 17 Climate change and the environment at the UN Security Council: towards a comprehensive approach 241 Martin Wall and Janani Vivekananda 18 Understanding and framing scarcity, sustainability and security: why and how to use the complexity lens 257 Shafiqul Islam and Enamul Choudhury 19 The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change in peace negotiations 273 Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira 20 Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation 290 Mark Nuttall 21 Renewable energy, security and environment 307 Huiyi Chen 22 Displaced populations, food security and frontier agriculture 320 Dorte Verner and Edinaldo Tebaldi Index
£176.70
Lexington Books Administering and Managing the U.S. Food System:
Book SynopsisFood and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public administration scholars, and scholars from other disciplines can unintentionally draw up established public administration literature. The chapters in this edited volume highlight where the lenses and languages of public administration can and should be used to analyze food systems. Viewed collectively, the editors argue that the lenses and languages of public administration can and should become a common ground for scholars and practitioners to discuss food systems.Trade Review“Hoflund, Jones, and Pautz have edited an exceptional collection that challenges existing narratives about food politics and examines the unintended consequences of policies that impact sustainability, healthcare, and civic engagement. Readers who are interested in public administration will be engaged by case studies on the Farm Bill, SNAP program, school lunch initiatives, food labeling, and food processing. Readers who are drawn to food politics will be inspired by applications of public administration frameworks and methods that will advance their understanding of the policy process and its impacts. This is an important volume that examines problems in and proposes solutions to crises that plague the U.S. food system.” -- Courtney Thomas, Virginia Tech“Administering and Managing the US Food System is a must-read for those who want to learn more about food policy in America. This volume speaks to the major challenges facing public servants today— school lunches, food insecurity, regulating organic foods, processing plants, and more. Hoflund, Jones, and Pautz deliver on their promise to explain the intersection of food policy and public administration.” -- Amanda Olejarski, West Chester University"This volume provides a much-needed introduction to the interface between the food system and public administration for students and scholars alike. The accessible and diverse compilation of cases illustrate how the field of public administration has much to offer in terms of creating a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable food system that impacts every American, every day.” -- Jill Clark, Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Table to Study Food Systems through Public AdministrationA. Bryce Hoflund, John C. Jones, and Michelle C. PautzSection II. Politics and PolicyChapter One. How the Farm Bill Underpins U.S. Nutrition PolicyBrent BlevinsChapter Two. The Politics of SNAP MathematicsAngela Babb Chapter Three. The Role of Crop Insurance in Shaping Production Trends and Environmental Outcomes in the U.S. Agri-Food SystemKristal Jones, Daniel Tobin, Laurie Ristino, Carina Isbell, and Jake JacobsChapter Four. Hating Health Meals: Policy Rollbacks and School MealsJennifer RutledgeChapter Five: Taking Students and Staff Seriously: The National School Lunch Program as Co-ProductionAmy RosenthalChapter Six. Using a Multidimensional Food Insecurity Framework to Inform Public PolicyDanni Smith, Erin Feichtinger, Jodi BenensonChapter Seven. Growing a Greener Lens: Connecting Concepts of Public Affairs and Sustainability from a Food Systems’ FrameRachel EmasSection III. RegulationChapter Eight. Informationism in Food Policy: How the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Came to Regulate Food Through Informative LabelingXaq FrohlichChapter Nine. Contested Regulations in the Organic Foods Sector: Public Administration’s Challenging Encounter with Alternative Food ActivismMichael HaedickeChapter Ten. Seed Libraries in the U.S.: Regulations, Seed Saving, Seed Sharing, and Seed SovereigntyNurcan Atalan-Helicke, Andrew J. Schneller, Clarivel Gonzalez, Carolyn Lois, and Helen Alemayehu MebrateSection IV. Budget and FinanceChapter Eleven. Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Short-Term Collaborative Networks: A Case Study of Communities Putting Prevention to Work Nutrition Initiatives in Douglas County, NebraskaCan Chen, A. Bryce Hoflund, and Carol EbdonChapter Twelve. Framework for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Large-Scale Food Processing Plant in a Small Rural Community: The Case of Costco’s Poultry Plant in Fremont, Nebraska, Sungho Park, Craig S. MaherSection V. Emergency ManagementChapter Thirteen. Addressing Nutrition During and After a Humanitarian EmergencySheila FleischhackerChapter Fourteen. Food Insecurity and an Economic Crisis: The Case of Omaha, Nebraska during the Coronavirus ShutdownsEmily MacNabb and B.J. FletcherSection VI. ConclusionConclusion: Connecting Food Systems and Public Administration: Key Takeaways and Future ResearchA. Bryce Hoflund, John C. Jones, Michelle C. Pautz
£80.10
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Modern Guide to Food Economics
Book SynopsisThis Modern Guide provides detailed theoretical and empirical insights into key areas of research in food economics. It takes a forward-looking perspective on how different actors in the food system shape the sustainability of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as on major challenges to efficient and inclusive food systems.Analysing the main characteristics of modern food markets, chapters introduce readers to the economics of food systems, product differentiation, the mediating role of food retailers, and the increasing significance and complexity of international trade in food. Encapsulating new methods in the study of food economics and policy, this Modern Guide explores changes in food value chains and consumption. It further pushes the boundaries of food economics to include economic perspectives on the role of social media and technology such as genomics in shaping food systems.Offering key insights into the state-of-the-art debates in the field, this Modern Guide will be critical reading for graduate students and researchers of food economics. It will also be a timely book for practitioners in the field wishing to take a fresh look at issues shaping food systems.Trade Review‘Food systems today reflect new technologies in food production and distribution, and consumers’ demand for a broad range of attributes in food. Conditions that promote innovation and enhance information are key to the markets that have emerged. A Modern Guide to Food Economics provides new insights into economic models, data, and analytics for understanding the increasingly complex food environment today.’ -- Helen H. Jensen, Iowa State University, US‘A Modern Guide to Food Economics edited by Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs will be a must-read for all of us who are working on the topic. The carefully edited book, with contributions from leading scholars, covers the new developments in food economics including food systems, regulatory issues, and more.’ -- Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University, the Netherlands‘The Modern Guide is an excellent collection of essays on the modern state of the art in food economics that is an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and individuals interested in understanding and changing the modern food system.’ -- Jayson Lusk, Purdue University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to A Modern Guide to Food Economics 1 Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs PART I CHANGES IN THE FOOD SYSTEM 1 The economics of food systems 7 David Zilberman 2 The supplier–retailer relationship in contemporary food markets 23 Alessandro Bonanno and Metin .akır 3 Product differentiation in food 47 Jill J. McCluskey and Jason A. Winfree 4 Technical regulation of agri-food trade 62 David Orden, Caesar B. Cororaton and Khadija Rouchdi PART II CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH 5 The economics of the nutrition and sustainable diet transition 89 Xavier Irz and Mario Mazzocchi 6 Health-oriented nutrition policies 113 Jill E. Hobbs and Jutta Roosen 7 The economics of food loss and waste 144 Brenna Ellison and Mary K. Muth 8 Food safety and traceability 170 James Mitchell, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor PART III DEVELOPMENTS IN METHODS AND DATA 9 Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food 193 David R. Just 10 Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the scanner data age 215 Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi 11 Recent developments in inference: practicalities for applied economics 235 Jeffrey D. Michler and Anna Josephson PART IV NEW ISSUES 12 Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model can help to explain the effects of food taxes 270 Sinne Smed, Chiara Lombardini and Leena Lankoski 13 Food, beverages, and social media: trends and tools for economic research 297 Sean B. Cash, Saleem Alhabash, Gabriela Fretes and Mengyan Ma 14 How the use of genomics may continue to influence consumer behaviour 327 Ellen Goddard Index 352
£133.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Food Security and Society
Book SynopsisEvents such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have drawn the subject of food security firmly into the public eye. This timely Handbook examines and responds to this pertinent topic, offering calculated solutions to food insecurity. Exploring an international range of perspectives surrounding food security, the Handbook of Food Security and Society illustrates clear links between food and broader social welfare policy and economic determinants. Chapters describe histories of food security, its measurement and question the role of movements, such as charitable organisations, that have been involved in the food security debate. They resolutely locate food welfare as a fundamental human right. This comprehensive Handbook will be essential for politics, economics and social policy academics and researchers seeking to gain a clearer understanding of food security history and policy. It will additionally be beneficial to specific practitioners, such as nutritionists and policy makers, working to understand key connections between welfare strategies, wellbeing and food security.Trade Review‘What a fantastic and accessible tomb of rich, conceptual insights on this crucial topic. Featuring an incredible line-up of international researchers and activists, this Handbook is a timely, comprehensive collection providing a critical, yet pragmatic, overview of food insecurity. It transcends diverse conceptions, cultures and theories, encompassing the scope of research, practice and policy solutions to tackle this intractable issue. An excellent and very accessible pedagogic guide, suitable for educators, researchers, activists or citizens, all working tirelessly to promote food justice, fairness and equity within our food system.’ -- Clare Pettinger, University of Plymouth, UK‘This Handbook argues convincingly that ending hunger means far more than providing food to those in need. It means transforming society to one that is more equitable, socially as well as economically. The chapters here are a rich source of data, analysis, and inspiration about how to work towards that transformation - and the sooner, the better.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, US‘It is my pleasure to endorse the Handbook of Food Security and Society. Edited by international experts and with valuable contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in their fields, it provides critical analyses of relevant topics with examples of practice necessary to promote food security within and across societies.’ -- Mark Lawrence, Deakin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv Introduction to the Handbook of Food Security and Society 1 Martin Caraher, John Coveney and Mickey Chopra PART I BACKGROUND CHAPTERS 1 ‘The past is not dead’: hunger and famine in Ireland 27 Christine Kinealy 2 Hunger is a crime: why words matter 38 Andy Fisher 3 Challenging corporate charity: food commons as a response to food insecurity 48 Tara Kenny and Colin Sage PART II THE RIGHT TO FOOD 4 Championing the right to food in South Africa: the Dullah Omar experience 58 Ebenezer Durojaye and Aisosa Jennifer Omoruyi 5 Food as a right in addressing food insecurity: a case study from Scotland 72 Pete Ritchie and Chelsea Marshall PART III MEASURES AND MEASUREMENT 6 Nutrition measures and limits: the dominance of the USDA’s Food Insecurity and Hunger Module and its adaptations 84 Sinéad Furey and Emma Beacom 7 Comparative analysis of the measurement of food insecurity and implications for policy 98 Catherine Littler, Susan Belyea, Jennifer Brady and Elaine Power 8 Food and nutrition standards to address food insecurity 107 Christina Pollard, Sharonna Mossenson and Sue Booth 9 What are the lived experiences of people who are food insecure? 118 Danielle Gallegos and Rhonda Dryland 10 Tracking the extent and drivers of food insecurity and their effects on malnutrition syndemic in South Africa 128 Zandile J. Mchiza, Yul D. Davids and Laurentia J. Opperman 11 Gender and food security: cross cutting or crossed out? The challenge of implementing ‘Gender Just’ food security solutions 144 Regina Murphy Keith PART IV EXAMPLES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE 12 Can the Alma Ata principles of equity, governance and voice be used to balance the rising power of international corporations in global nutrition governance? 162 Regina Murphy Keith 13 Food security lessons from exemplars in stunting reduction 182 Jamal Yearwood, Nadia Akseer, Goutham Kandru and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta 14 The financialization of agricultural commodities: implications for food security 200 S. Ryan Isakson, Jennifer Clapp and Phoebe Stephens 15 The role of financial markets in promoting food security 213 Lee Hodgkinson 16 Global philanthropy and welfare capitalism: private-sector approaches to food insecurity 229 Martin Caraher 17 The COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: examples of practical solutions to address food insecurity among the vulnerable citizens 240 Zandile J. Mchiza, Yul D. Davids, Laurentia J. Opperman and Benjamin J. Roberts 18 Food insecurity policy in Brazil: responses and challenges 254 Manuela Mika Jomori, Bruna Leal Lima Maciel, Sílvia Aparecida Zimmermann and Martin Caraher 19 Response to the food insecurity crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study from Colombia 275 Martha Alicia Cadavid Castro, Lorena Patricia Mancilla Lopez, Luis Alirio López Giraldo, Pablo Andres Maya Duque, Briana Davahiva Gómez Ramirez and Juan Camilo Sánchez Gil 20 Government and food banks food security policy governance: Australian and United States COVID-19 responses 283 Sue Booth, Claire Pulker and Christina Pollard 21 Smart farming for food security and sustainability: facing the dilemma of small companies; the Siena Food Lab Project 294 Cristina Santini, Alessio Cavicchi, Simone Cresti, Cristiana Tozzi and Angelo Riccaboni 22 The cooperation dilemma: can agricultural cooperatives sustainably survive in a globalised food system while contributing to food security? 308 Raquel Ajates 23 Emergency feeding in America: making words and deeds actually matter 321 Greg Silverman PART V CONCLUSION 24 The intransigence of food insecurity: questioning the realities 331 Tim Lang Index
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CABI Publishing Fight Against Food Shortages and Surpluses, The:
Book SynopsisThe price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. The challenge is for governments to manage food and farming so that there are neither food shortages nor food surpluses. This book explores how governments can do this and uses theory and evidence to address major ideologies and global problems anew by: - Exploring the causes, consequence and potential for moderation of food price volatility. - Evaluating the various policy tools that have been proposed to eliminate hunger and reduce volatility. - Concluding with a practical strategy to moderate volatility - grain buffer stocks. In so doing the book addresses a core question: how can prices be managed for the benefit of consumers and farmers without impairing the efficiency of the market? Authored by an agricultural economist with thirty years of practical experience in farm policy, this book will assist governments in the design of their food and agricultural policies. Requiring no prior knowledge of economics, it is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of economics, international and sustainable development, agriculture, and food security.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Grain in the world Chapter 3: The pattern of grain prices Chapter 4: The root cause of unstable grain prices Chapter 5: Unstable grain prices – who wins? who loses? Chapter 6: Stabilising grain prices in a closed economy Chapter 7: A model of the international grain market Chapter 8: Stabilising grain prices in an open economy Chapter 9: Buffer stocks – technical and legal aspects Chapter 10: Attitudes towards price stabilisation and buffer stocks Chapter 11: Conclusion
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Berghahn Books Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First
Book Synopsis Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives provides a global outlook on sustainability issues. These case studies will appeal to those working in public sector agencies, NGOs, consultancies and other bodies focused on food security, human nutrition and environmental sustainability.Trade Review “[This book] provides a holistic understanding of food-related activities and behaviour … both theoretical and empirical arguments are covered in a balanced manner. The volume takes cognisance of the ‘minutiae of food experiences’ (p. 19) of people with respect to sustainability, cutting across the globe.” • European Association of Social Anthropologists Journal “Contains a valuable and diverse set of essays that will help readers to understand the complexities of sustainable food and food systems and to advance cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons.” • Ellen Messer, Food AnthropologistTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Introduction: Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Chapter 1. Towards a Cross-disciplinary Approach to Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth Chapter 2. Food Insecurity and Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa Paul Collinson Chapter 3. From Healthy to Sustainable: Transforming the Concept of the Mediterranean Diet from Health to Sustainability through Culture F. Xavier Medina Chapter 4. Cultures of Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Understanding Organic Food in Palermo Giovanni Orlando Chapter 5. Wild Phytogenetic Resources for Food in the Barranca del Rίo Santiago, Mexico: A First Approach to Sustainability Martín Tena Meza, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Ricardo Ávila Palafox, Raymundo Villavicencio García Chapter 6. Farm Urban and Urban Aquaponics: Changing Perceptions in Classrooms and Communities Iain Young Chapter 7. ‘Dig for Sustainability’ in the Twenty-first Century: Allotments, Gardens and Television Helen Macbeth Chapter 8. Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century: How Places in the UK are Working to Meet This Challenge Lucy Antal Chapter 9. Food and the Problem of Uncertainty – Refugees and the Sense of Sustainability: The Case of Karen Farmers Returning to Their Villages From Refugee Camps Along the Thai Burmese Border Peter Kaiser Chapter 10. In Praise of a Fermented Bread: An Ethiopian Recipe for Frugal Sustainability Valentina Peveri Chapter 11. The Indian ‘Meat Dilemma’: Malnutrition, Social Hierarchy and Ecological Sustainability Michaël Bruckert Chapter 12. Eating Outside the Home: Food Practices as a Consequence of Economic Crisis in Spain Maria Gracia-Arnaiz Chapter 13. First Steps in Developing a Food Waste Management Strategy in a UK Higher Education Institution: The University of Liverpool Case Study Nick Doran and Iain Young Chapter 14. The Demand for Sustainable Ways of Dealing with Waste from Agriculture and Aquaculture Iain Young Index
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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited Advances in Cultured Meat Technology
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Collective Ink Resetting our Future: Feeding Each Other: Shaping
Book SynopsisFood does much more than fuel our bodies. Food helps us express care, create culture, and connect. But while food today might feed some of us, the growing, producing, packaging, and distributing is also killing us. Trying to ‘feed the world’ is accelerating the collapse of environmental, economic, and social structures. The current “solutions” aren’t working. By blending research, insights from diverse thinkers, and lived experience, food systems educator Nicole Civita and story justice activist Michelle Auerbach make sense of sustenance. They demonstrate that our lives depend on the relationships we make with and through food, and make the case for a much-needed cultural shift in the way we approach food.
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Icon Books The Future of Agriculture
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dairy Farming in the 21st Century: Global Ethics,
Book SynopsisHow do we achieve food security for a global population now over 7 billion people and trending towards 10 billion by 2050? This study of the global dairy industry examines how to balance our needs with those of animals and the environment. It scrutinises ruminant bovines’ worrying exhaling of methane, a greenhouse gas which, fortunately, evidence shows can be reduced by adding seaweed to cattle feed. Are the multi-thousand-cow mega-dairies of the USA appropriate models for Africa and Asia's high-growth dairy regions, where so many women are smallholders? Is it ethical to keep cows in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), eating unnatural high-energy/low fibre diets when they prefer grazing pasture? Other issues include hormones for oestrus stimulation, and GMOs for milk yield, stressing cows' immune systems and drastically shortening longevity. This book offers multifaceted discussion of the central and ancillary issues relevant to dairying, and consumption of plant- and laboratory-based foods in the 21st century. No book to date offers such a comprehensive overview, linking ethics, environment, health and policy-making with in-depth coverage of the major dairy farming regions of the world.Trade ReviewIn this volume Bruce Scholten brings together his long-standing research on dairying from around the world, making a unique and ground-breaking contribution to agri-food studies and agricultural geography. It is informed with an ambitious and critical approach to a wide range of literatures and empirical investigations. In particular, it blends ethical, political and environmental debates and perspectives, dealing with both production and consumption relations. It is a ‘must read’ for a wide range of scholars and practitioners interested in the conceptual and material cross-roads global dairying now finds itself. * Terry Marsden, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Sustainable Places Research Institute and School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK *Bruce Scholten’s volume is an important contribution to the question of sustainable dairy farming. He thoroughly interrogates the ethical dimension of production, and demonstrates how ethics, the environment and political factors shape the face of the industry. The book uses evidence and fact in a rounded way and includes academic work as well as the observations of practitioners. As an aside, Scholten offers a valuable critique of how evidence is created and valued and the devaluation of expert knowledge and the subsequent costs. I particularly enjoyed his interrogation of the gendered nature of farming practice, a theme that is often overlooked when agriculture is seen as a sector rather than an occupation. This book is a delight to read; it is witty, engaging, and very clever. * Sally Shortall (PhD), Duke of Northumberland Professor of Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK. Lead author, 2017 Scottish Government Report on Women in Farming *As professor, researcher and mentor-cum-supervisor of university graduate students researching smallholder dairy development, including policies and climate change, over four decades, I have not come across a book that examines the political, ethical and environmental factors influencing dairy development in one volume like this. Writing on India's White Revolution, and the East Africa Dairy Development project (EADD), Bruce A. Scholten, promotes sustainability and nutrition security, showing how village cooperatives, cold chains and technical assistance can empower women's income and family nutrition. We will see if more digestible feed, and additives such as seaweed, can enhance women’s participation – while reducing ruminant methane which exacerbates global warming. * Stephen Gichovi Mbogoh (PhD), International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya *This book provides extremely significant insights into environmental and social concerns related to the future of dairy farming in the Global North and South. Its engagement with key ethical debates and foregrounding of farming communities is outstanding, especially its abiding concern with animal welfare and insights into women’s roles in dairy farming. Given concerns around livestock and methane emissions, Scholten's exceptionally valuable and timely perspectives will engage both a specialist audience and those more broadly interested in sustainable and just solutions to global warming and food insecurity. * Pratyusha Basu (PhD), University of Texas at El Paso, author of Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development *In Chapter 5 Bruce Scholten highlights the importance of women farmers for international food security and sustainable development. Using the metaphor of the grass ceiling, he examines obstacles to women’s success as farmers and the gendered economic disparities between men and women. Women’s organizations and cooperatives, the growth of alternative food networks, organic production and organic certification policies provide the means for some women to break through the grass ceiling. Scholten explains how the Grass Ceiling differs among nations in accordance with geography, social structures and norms, government policy and consumer preferences. * Lucy Jarosz (PhD), Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA *'Dairy farming has become dominated by markets and investors, beyond control of family-scale farmers who get their hands dirty and break a sweat for a living. Bruce Scholten understands, both analytically from his academic background, and with his roots on the farm, that there is an intrinsic relationship between a herd of cows and a family, and between cows and cropland where their waste is recycled to enrich soil instead of becoming a concentrated pollutant. He articulates how eliminating these connections exploits people, animals and the environment, resulting in nutritionally-inferior food. * Mark A. Kastel, Executive Director, OrganicEye; co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, US advocates for family-scale pasture dairying *Table of ContentsList of Photos and Illustrations Glossary and Abbreviations Foreword Acknowledgements Preface by author Chapter 1 Dairying from Holocene Herding to Anthropocene Confinement Chapter 2 Politics, Family Farmers & Animals Chapter 3 Ethics & Animals Chapter 4 Environment & Livestock Agriculture Chapter 5 Women’s Grass Ceiling: Nexus of Ethics, Environment, and Politics Chapter 6 Conclusions on Cows, Climate & Humans Bibliography Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Innovation for sustainability: Small farmers
Book SynopsisSmall farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas, as sources of occupation and livelihood, factors of socio-economic diversity, cradles of grass-roots innovation and experimentation. Their capacity to adapt and to contribute positively to societal challenges depends on the strategies they can develop and their ability to innovate. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the determinants, dynamics and outcomes of rural and agricultural change processes, with a special focus on the role of small and family farming. Covering both the system and the farm level of analysis, the authors offer a comprehensive view of approaches and models capable to grasp different complementary aspects of the development trajectories followed by farms, food systems and territories facing multi-dimensional drivers of change and exposed to a range of vulnerability factors. The emerging characters and roles of innovation networks and social learning, as well as the decision-making processes at the farm level are explored in particular depth, with attention to the multi-dimensional societal expectations vis-à-vis agriculture, small farms and rural areas, with specific attention to food and nutrition security concerns.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Small farming and the food system; Stefano Grando, Gianluca Brunori, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Lee-Ann Sutherland; Chapter 2. Small farming and food and nutrition security; Gianluca Brunori, Tessa Avermaete, Fabio Bartolini, Natalia Brzezina, Stefano Grando, Terry Marsden, Erik Mathijs, Ana Moragues-Faus, Roberta Sonnino; Chapter 3. Unpacking food systems; Gianluca Brunori, Tessa Avermaete, Fabio Bartolini, Natalia Brzezina, Terry Marsden, Erik Mathijs, Ana Moragues-Faus, Roberta Sonnino;Chapter 4. The vulnerability of food systems; Gianluca Brunori, Tessa Avermaete, Fabio Bartolini, Natalia Brzezina, Terry Marsden, Erik Mathijs, Ana Moragues-Faus, Roberta Sonnino; Chapter 5. Food systems as assemblages; Gianluca Brunori,Francesca Galli, Stefano Grando; Chapter 6. Small farms' behavior: conditions, strategies,performances; Stefano Grando, Fabio Bartolini, Isabelle Bonjean, Gianluca Brunori, Erik Mathijs, Paolo Prosperi, Daniele Vergamini; Chapter 7. Small farms and innovation; Gianluca Brunori, Jet Proost, Sigrid Rand; Chapter 8. Innovation policies for sustainable, resilient, food secure systems; Gianluca Brunori, Jet Proost, Sigrid Rand
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James Currey Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming &
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and farming populations, who represent nearly 80 per cent of the country's population. Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive activities among large diasporic populations in the West, the evidence suggests that they were provoked by widespread internal dissatisfaction.Land deals by the Government with foreign investors, the building of vast hydroelectric dams, sugar estates and industry parks, and urban sprawl have put pressure on agricultural, rural areas. Today, dispossessions, drought and social unrest surround fears of the worst food shortages in decades. Examining these developments in Ethiopia's lake region, the author shows how transformations in state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have impacted on a population of smallholder farmers for whom agriculture is not only the mainstay of the economy but a way of life. Getnet Bekele is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, MI, wherehe teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.Trade ReviewWinner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. * . *Richly documented and beautifully written, Getnet Bekele's book merits reading by anyone interested in comparative understanding of agrarian and environmental change, rural development, and food security in Africa and elsewhere. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Ploughing New Ground is a well-written and fascinating study. It is a local history which deepens our understanding of Ethiopian agriculture. Getnet should be congratulated for presenting new and exciting work on the history of agricultural and environmental change in Ethiopia, a subject on which literature is scant. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Landscape Pastoral: The making and remaking of a grassland environment, 1886-1916 Negotiating a Landscape: Continuity and change in a grassland environment, 1917-1941 Blurring the Boundaries: The ascendancy of crop production in a flexible environment, 1942-1955 Fresh Encounters and Morphing Strategies: The changing organization of production in an era of agricultural intervention, 1956-1965 Inputs, Outputs and the Farm: Transformations in the science, politics and praxis of agricultural development, 1966-1974 Competition and Co-existence: Creating space for small- to large-scale farming, 1966-1974 Of Production and Production Relations: Farming in an era of revolutionary change and socialist development, 1975-1991 Vicious Circle: Agricultural development at the time of "revolutionary democracy", 1991-2016 Conclusion
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Handbook of Food Science and Technology 3: Food
Book SynopsisThis third volume in the Handbook of Food Science and Technology Set explains the processing of raw materials into traditional food (bread, wine, cheese, etc.). The agri-food industry has evolved in order to meet new market expectations of its products; with the use of separation and assembly technologies, food technologists and engineers now increasingly understand and control the preparation of a large diversity of ingredients using additional properties to move from the raw materials into new food products. Taking into account the fundamental basis and technological specificities of the main food sectors, throughout the three parts of this book, the authors investigate the biological and biochemical conversions and physicochemical treatment of food from animal sources, plant sources and food ingredients.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Gérard Brulé Part 1 Food from Animal Sources 1 Chapter 1 From Milk to Dairy Products 3 Thomas Croguennec, Romain Jeantet and Pierre Schuck 1.1 The biochemistry and physical chemistry of milk 3 1.1.1 Milk fat 4 1.1.2 Carbohydrates 8 1.1.3 Proteins 10 1.1.4 Milk minerals 15 1.2 Biological and physicochemical aspects of milk processing 17 1.2.1 The stability of fat globules 17 1.2.2 Protein stability 19 1.3 Dairy product technology 25 1.3.1 Liquid milk 25 1.3.2 Fermented milk products 29 1.3.3 Milk powder 32 1.3.4 Cheese 39 1.3.5 Cream and butter 58 Chapter 2 From Muscle to Meat and Meat Products 65 Catherine Guérin 2.1 The biochemistry of muscle (land animals and fish) 65 2.1.1 The structure and composition of meat and fish muscle 66 2.1.2 Muscle structure 73 2.1.3 Proteins 78 2.1.4 Carbohydrates 88 2.1.5 Vitamins and minerals 88 2.2 Biological and physicochemical changes in muscle 89 2.2.1 Muscle contraction 89 2.2.2 Changes in muscle after death 91 2.3 Meat and fish processing technology 102 2.3.1 Meat processing technology 102 2.3.2 Fish processing technology 109 Chapter 3 From Eggs to Egg Products 115 Marc Anton, Valérie Lechevalier and Françoise Nau 3.1 Chicken egg – raw material in the egg industry 117 3.1.1 Structure and composition 117 3.1.2 Biochemical and physicochemical properties of the protein and lipid fractions of egg 120 3.2 Physicochemical properties of the different egg fractions 125 3.2.1 Interfacial properties 125 3.2.2 Gelling properties 131 3.3 The egg industry: technology and products 136 3.3.1 Decontamination of shells 138 3.3.2 Breaking and separation of the egg white and yolk 138 3.3.3 Primary processing of egg products – decontamination and stabilization 139 3.3.4 Secondary processing of egg products 142 3.3.5 Egg extracts 143 Part 2 Food from Plant Sources 145 Chapter 4 From Wheat to Bread and Pasta 147 Hubert Chiron and Philippe Roussel 4.1 Biochemistry and physical chemistry of wheat 150 4.1.1 Overall composition 150 4.1.2 Structure and properties of the constituents 154 4.2 Biological and physicochemical factors of wheat processing 163 4.2.1 Development of texture 164 4.2.2 Development of color and flavor 170 4.3 The technology of milling, bread making and pasta making 172 4.3.1 Processing of wheat into flour and semolina 172 4.3.2 Bread making 180 4.3.3 Pasta making 195 Chapter 5 From Barley to Beer 205 Romain Jeantet and Ludivine Perrocheau 5.1 Biochemistry and structure of barley and malt 205 5.1.1 Morphology of barley grain 206 5.1.2 Biochemical composition of barley 207 5.1.3 Composition and structure of starch and protein 208 5.1.4 Effect of malting 209 5.2 Biological and physicochemical factors of processing 213 5.2.1 Enzymatic degradation of starch and protein 214 5.2.2 Fermentability of the wort 220 5.3 Brewing technology 221 5.3.1 Stages of malting 221 5.3.2 Stages of beer production 224 Chapter 6 From Fruit to Fruit Juice and Fermented Products 231 Alain Baron, Mohammad Turk and Jean-Michel Le Quéré 6.1 Fruit development 231 6.1.1 Stages of development 231 6.1.2 Fruit ripening 233 6.2 Biochemistry of fruit juice 237 6.2.1 Pectins 238 6.2.2 Pectinolytic enzymes 241 6.2.3 Bitter and astringent compounds 245 6.3 Fruit juice processing 249 6.3.1 Preparation of fruit 249 6.3.2 Pre-treatment 250 6.3.3 Pressing 250 6.3.4 Treatment of fruit juice 253 6.3.5 Pasteurization, high-pressure treatment, pulsed electric fields and concentration 262 6.4 Cider 264 6.4.1 French cider 264 6.4.2 Fermentation process 265 6.4.3 Action of microorganisms 267 6.4.4 Fermentation and post-fermentation 271 Chapter 7 From Grape to Wine 275 Thomas Croguennec 7.1 Raw materials 276 7.1.1 Grape variety 276 7.1.2 Composition of grapes 276 7.2 Winemaking techniques 280 7.2.1 State of the harvest and adjustments 281 7.2.2 Physicochemical processes involved in winemaking 282 7.2.3 Biological processes involved in winemaking: fermentation 285 7.3 Stabilization and maturation of wine 289 7.3.1 Biological stabilization 289 7.3.2 Physicochemical stabilization 290 7.3.3 Maturation of wine 291 7.4 Specific technology 292 7.4.1 Sparkling wines (traditional method) 292 7.4.2 Sweet wines 293 Chapter 8 From Fruit and Vegetables to Fresh-Cut Products 297 Florence Charles and Patrick Varoquaux 8.1 Respiratory activity of plants 298 8.1.1 Measurement and modeling of respiratory activity 299 8.1.2 Control of respiratory activity 301 8.2 Enzymatic browning 302 8.2.1 Mechanism and evaluation 302 8.2.2 Prevention of enzymatic browning 303 8.3 Unit operations in the production of fresh-cut products: main scientific and technical challenges 304 8.3.1 Raw materials: selection of varieties and cultivation methods 306 8.3.2 Raw material quality control: grading 307 8.3.3 Trimming and mixing 307 8.3.4 Cutting 308 8.3.5 Washing and disinfection 309 8.3.6 Draining and drying 312 8.3.7 Weighing 313 8.3.8 Bagging 313 8.4 Modified atmosphere packaging 314 8.4.1 Diffusion of gases through packaging 315 8.4.2 Change in gas content in modified atmosphere packaging 317 8.5 Conclusion 319 Part 3 Food Ingredients 321 Chapter 9 Functional Properties of Ingredients 323 Gérard Brulé and Thomas Croguennec 9.1 Interactions with water: hydration and thickening properties 324 9.1.1 Types of interaction 324 9.1.2 Influence of hydrophilic components on water availability and mobility 325 9.1.3 Influence of hydration on the solubilization, structure and mobility of compounds 325 9.1.4 Effect of the hydration of components on rheological properties 326 9.2 Intermolecular interactions: texture properties 326 9.2.1 Aggregation/gelation by destabilization of macromolecules or particles 326 9.2.2 Aggregation/gelation by covalent cross-linking 327 9.2.3 Sol–gel transitions 329 9.2.4 Influence of denaturation kinetics and molecular interactions 329 9.3 Interfacial properties: foaming and emulsification 330 9.3.1 Interfacial tension 330 9.3.2 Surfactants 332 9.3.3 Emulsification and foaming 332 Chapter 10 Separation Techniques 335 Thomas Croguennec and Valérie Lechevalier 10.1 Proteins and peptides 335 10.1.1 Milk proteins and peptides 335 10.1.2 Extraction of lysozyme from egg white 346 10.1.3 Extraction of gelatin 348 10.1.4 Plant proteins 349 10.2 Carbohydrates 351 10.2.1 Sucrose 351 10.2.2 Lactose 364 10.2.3 Polysaccharides 369 10.3 Lipids 378 10.3.1 Production of vegetable oils 379 10.3.2 Lipid modification 383 10.4 Pigments and flavorings 391 10.4.1 Types of pigments and flavorings 391 10.4.2 Extraction/concentration of colorings and flavors 397 10.4.3 Formulation 400 Bibliography 403 List of Authors 417 Index 419
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Food Security in the Middle East
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises original, empirically- grounded chapters that collectively offer the most comprehensive study available to date on food security in the Middle East. The book starts with a theoretical framing of the phenomena of food security and food sovereignty and presents empirical case studies of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Yemen, the Persian Gulf states and Iran. Some of the major themes examined include the ascent and decline of various food regimes, urban agriculture, overseas agricultural land purchases, national food self-sufficiency strategies, distribution networks and food consumption patterns, and nutrition transitions and healthcare. Collectively, the chapters represent highly original contributions to the disciplines of political science, economics, agricultural studies, and healthcare policy.Trade Review'Food Security in the Middle East opens up urgent policy issues (in the 'food crisis' shadow) about food security/sovereignty across a region characterised by urban bias and food dependence, unsustainable food subsidy programs, and questionable offshoring of food provisioning. Chapters addressing member state particularities offer comparative perspectives within a global food regime context, providing a comprehensive and nuanced account of regional food insecurities, agrarian neglect, super-marketisation, dietary transformation and public health concerns. This volume's notable achievement is a historicised and diversified view of 'food crisis' as deeply embedded in the structuring of state, corporate and institutional practices in an oil-rich, post-colonial region.' -- Philip McMichael, Chair of the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University'This book is a fresh look at the challenges and opportunities associated with food security faced by the Middle East. The thorough treatment of a broad range of topics from trade to self-sufficiency, and from nutrition to the supermarket revolution and emerging dietary habits make it a truly unique read. Particularly insightful is the overall food supply and demand framework that is the starting point for the analysis in each chapter.' -- Dr. Julian A. Lampietti, Practice Leader, The World Bank'The student of the region will learn much about an understudied realm of social relations in a region whose food systems have suffered scholarly neglect for decades... The case studies the editors select, ranging from the logic of land purchases by Gulf states, to Jordanian state subsidy policy, to transformations in Egyptian state agricultural policy, reflect the many meanings embedded in the term "food security"...' -- Arab Studies Journal
£22.50
Papadakis Food Planet Future
Book SynopsisFood Planet Future stands out as a captivating journey into art and environmental advocacy Beyond its aesthetic allure, Dash's work ignites conversations about the sustainability of our food systems in the face of the climate crisis. - Geographical MagazineAmazing visual feast with a terrific message!- David R. Montgomery, Author, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilisations, Growing a RevolutionIf we care about nature and our planet's health, we need to care about where our everyday food is coming from. As one of the most destructive practices on the planet, farming outcomes have helped bring us to the brink of catastrophe. Fortunately, they can help bring us back. Food Planet Future explores how.Containing never-seen-before images taken using the latest photographic technology,Food Planet Futurecombines art and science to show food in a whole new light. Food Planet Fut
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Penguin Putnam Inc How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World
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Brepols N.V. Food Supply, Demand and Trade: Aspects of the
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Brepols N.V. The Agro-Food Market: Production, Distribution
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PIE - Peter Lang Agroecological transitions, between determinist
Book SynopsisDebates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very change process' itself.This book is an endeavor to explicate relationships to change in agroecological transitions, referring to two contrasting and ideal-typical ontological relationships to change, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective. These conceptions or interpretations of the change process are based respectively on whether objectives and means are predetermined, or defi ned during the change process and while accounting for the uncertainty and complexity of mechanisms of change as well as for the diversity of actors'visions.Many diverse cases of agroecological transitions are discussed in this book, in order to highlight the fact that these perspectives are not always exclusive in transition process but that they can be articulated successively or combined complementarily, in different ways thus reinforcing the potential diversity of transition pathways.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Climate-Smart Food
Book SynopsisThis open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the world’s farmers are already dealing with, and what new threats climate change will bring. Readers will encounter heat waves and hurricanes, wildfires and deadly toxins, as well as some truly climate-smart solutions. In every case there are responses that could cut emissions while boosting resilience and livelihoods. Ultimately we are all in this together, our decisions on what food we buy and how we consume it send life-changing ripples right through the global web that is our food supply. As we face a future of 10 billion mouths to feed in a rapidly changing climate, it’s time to get to know our farmers and herders, our vintners and fisherfolk, a whole lot better. Trade Review Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Climate Change and Adaptation for Food
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach. Importantly, looking at the sustainable food production, the authors compared the cost-benefit of adaptation costs from 2015 to 2065. It was found that a 15% adaptation capacity is more efficient for Malaysia in order to combat the climate change effects on the food sector. This book has developed a quantitative adaptive model namely, the Malaysian Climate and Economy (MCE) model, based on the dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling structure to examine food sustainability and adaptation strategies. Malaysia experiences an unusual combination of droughts and extreme rainfall events that can be attributed to climate change. These unusual events and consequences leave Malaysian policymakers looking for ways to make Malaysia self-sufficient in terms of agriculture. It is assumed that climate change effects may result in increasing food insecurity and vulnerability in the future. Policy measures are in place to lessen the likely climatic effects overall, but there is an urgent need to develop an adaptation policy for the future. Table of ContentsABSTRACT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Research background 1.2.1 Problem statement 1.3 Research questions 1.4 Objectives of the research 1.5 Current climate change scenario in Malaysia 1.6 Significance of the study 1.6.1 Limitations 1.7 Conclusion 1.8 Thesis organization Chapter Two: Literature Review 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Climate variability and climate change 2.2.1 Declining food sector 2.3 ADB Observations of Climate Change in Agriculture in South East Asia 2.4 Dynamics of food security under changing climate 2.5 Food security and climate change: a conceptual framework 2.6 Contribution of food sector in Malaysian GDP: 2.7 Potential impacts of climate change on food security in Malaysia: 2.8 Climate change and self-sufficiency level in rice production in Malaysia: 2.9 Food Security Policy in Malaysia 2.10 Food security and responses to climate change 2.11 Exploring development paths: institutions and collective behaviour 2.12 Empirical literature on the impact of climate change 2.13 Relevant literature based on national and international perspectives 2.14 Models to assess the impact of climate change 2.14.1 Partial equilibrium models 2.14.2 Crop simulation models 2.14.3 Agro-ecological zone (AEZ) models 2.14.4 Ricardian models 2.15 Adaptation policy for food security 2.15.1 Levels and approaches of adaptation for Malaysia 2.15.2 Government’s policies, challenges and actions for food security in the national level 2.15.3 Food policy measures and challenges at international level 2.16 Literature gap 2.17Contribution toliterature for Malaysian perspectives Chapter Three: Methodology 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Hypothetical construction of the study 3.3 General equilibrium theory 3.4 Conceptual framework of the study 3.5 Sources of the data 3.5.1 Study area 3.5.2 Empirical economizing adoption 3.6 Study of different level of adaptation option for climate change 3.7 Description of Simulations 3.8 The basic of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model 3.9 Pros and Cons of the basic model 3.10 Social accounting matrix (SAM) 3.11 SAM Market Closure 3.11.1 Market Clearance Condition 3.11.2 Normal Profit Condition 3.11.3 Factor Market Balance 3.12 Balancing a social accounting matrix (SAM) 3.13 A CGE Model for Malaysian Economy 3.13.1 Basic Structure of the Model 3.13.2 Prices 3.14 Production 3.15 Domestic demand 3.16 Mathematical Statement and Specification of the MICE Model 3.17 Price block 141 3.17.1 Import Price 3.17.2 Export Price 3.17.3 Composite Goods Price 3.17.4 Domestic Output Price 3.17.5 Activity Price 3.17.6 Value-added Price 3.17.7 Consumer Price Index 3.18 Producer Price Index for Non-traded Market Output 3.19 The Production and Commodity Block Equations 3.20 Factor Income 3.20.1 Household Income 3.20.2 Household Consumption Demand 3.20.3 Investment Demand 3.20.4 Government Revenue 3.20.5 Government Expenditure 3.21 System Constraints Block 3.21.1 Factor Markets 3.21.2 Composite Commodity Markets 3.21.3 Current-Account Balance for the Rest of the World, (in Foreign Currency) 150 3.21.4 Savings-Investment Balance 3.22 Climate Change Block 3.23 Calibrating the CGE Model 3.24 Perform Scenario Simulations within the CGE Model 3.25 Conclusion 157 Chapter Four: Scenarios of Adaptation Cost for Food Sustainability 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Policy scenarios 4.3 Description of Simulations 4.4 Different scenario analysis 4.4.1 Different level of damages from climate change 4.4.2 Cost of different adaptation option 4.4.3 The effect of climate change in government expenditure 4.4.4 The impact of climate change on food sustainability over time 4.4.5 The effects of adaptation strategies to Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP) Chapter Five: Policy Implications and Validations 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Suitable adaptation policy for food sustainability 5.3 Macro-economic effects of climate change 5.4 Predicted implications of adaptation options on food sustainability: 5.5 Adaptation action and policy issues for Malaysia 5.6 Summary Chapter Six: Adaptation Policy Recommendation 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Summary of findings 6.2.1 Different level of adaptation action 6.2.2 Adaptation cost and benefit for adaptation policy 6.2.3 Impacts of climate change for adaptation option 6.3 Capacity building options and gaps in the local policy community 6.4 Policy suggestion 6.5 Contribution 6.6 Suggestions for future research 6.7 Limitations 2 References List of Publications and Papers Presented Appendix
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Food Insecurity & Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of
Book SynopsisThis book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)’s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)’s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models’ and reanalysis’ products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance” syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats’’ of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its “inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks”. This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is “strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts”. Understanding GHA’s food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards “coping with drought” on the other hand.The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Agriculture, Livestock Production and
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set discusses recent approaches and technological innovations for sustainable agriculture in smallholder farming systems impacted by climate change. The systems covered include crop-based agricultural production, as well as aquaculture and livestock production as related systems using similar techniques to combat food security issues brought about by climate change and resource overuse. The chapters detail innovations involving crop diversification, soil resilience management, geoinformatics and land suitability monitoring for smart farming, information technology in livestock production, and nutrient resource management in fishery aquaculture. Researchers, practitioners and industries will be able to use this information to implement socially and economically sustainable practices to achieve food security in impoverished areas vulnerable to climate change, while also learning about the rapid evolution in information technology that is applicable for and available to small holder farmers. Volume 1 focuses on current innovations in agricultural and livestock practices in response to climate change. It covers the technological challenges, approaches and mitigation strategies encountered by both scholars and practitioners working in livestock and agricultural production systems impacted by climate change.Table of ContentsChapter1. Impact of future climate change on Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture: Challenges and Policy.- Chapter2. Managing agricultural nitrogen losses in crop production and mitigation of climate change effects.- Chapter3. Critical analysis and evaluation of groundnut value chain for revamping its production for global food security.- Chapter4. Aluminum uptake, callose accumulation and invertase activity in lowland and upland rice genotypes in related to aluminum stress tolerance.- Chapter5. Gender issues in farming — Challenging socially embedded positions in agrarian context.- Chapter6. Characterization and Appraisal of Crop based Farming System for Sustainable Development of Agriculture.- Chapter7. Nitrogen based for farming system.- Chapter8. Resilience for salt tolerance in rice cultivars using various strategies of conventional breeding, molecular breeding and transgenic approaches.- Chapter9. Geoinformation for land suitability modelling for climate smart farming in Africa.- Chapter10. Climate Change Adaptation: Remote Sensing-based Flood Crop Loss Assessment to Support Crop Insurance.- Chapter11. Smallholder Pig value chains development and livelihood security.- Chapter12. Revolutionizing impact of poultry resources in food security and rural economy.- Chapter13. Milk and Milk Product Safety and Quality Assurance for Achieving Better Public Health Outcomes.- Chapter14. Diversification in Aquaculture Resources and Practices for Smallholder Farmers.- Chapter15. Value addition in meat and fish products for human health and nutrition.- Chapter16. Indian Fish as Bioindicators species.- Chapter17. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Agriculture, Livestock Production and
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set discusses recent approaches and technological innovations for sustainable agriculture in smallholder farming systems impacted by climate change. The systems covered include crop-based agricultural production, as well as aquaculture and livestock production as related systems using similar techniques to combat food security issues brought about by climate change and resource overuse. The chapters detail innovations involving crop diversification, soil resilience management, geoinformatics and land suitability monitoring for smart farming, information technology in livestock production, and nutrient resource management in fishery aquaculture. Researchers, practitioners and industries will be able to use this information to implement socially and economically sustainable practices to achieve food security in impoverished areas vulnerable to climate change, while also learning about the rapid evolution in information technology that is applicable for and available to small holder farmers. Volume 2 focuses on trends and technologies in food security within the context of sustainable practices, drone technology, microwave data, molecular farming, machine learning, agricultural economics, spatial modeling and agricultural policy. These chapters discuss advancements in fishery resource and aquaculture practices, and also the challenges facing these areas due to climate change. Table of ContentsChapter1. Drone Technology in Sustainable Agriculture: The future of farming is precision agriculture and mapping.- Chapter2. Revolutionizing Crops and Soil Resources’ Resilience to Climate Change. A case for Best-fit Agronomic Practices in Low and High Input Systems.- Chapter3. Drought-resilient climate smart sorghum varieties for food and industrial use in marginal frontier areas of Kenya.- Chapter4. Optimizing nitrogen management for improved productivity, nitrogen use efficiency, food and nutrition security: African context perspectives.- Chapter5. Soil carbon pools under different farming practices.- Chapter6. Effect of conservation agriculture on energy consumption and carbon emission.- Chapter7. Plant Molecular Farming: A Marvelous Biotechnological Approach in Agricultural Production.- Chapter8. Examining the outcome of coupling machine learning with dual Polarimetric SAR for rice growth mapping.- Chapter9. Mapping prominent cash crops employing ALOS PALSAR-2 and selected machine learners.- Chapter10. Crop assessment and decision support information products using multi-sensor and multi-temporal moderate resolution data.- Chapter11. Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture: Advances for Smallholder Farming System.- Chapter12. Mobilizing Pig Resources for Capacity Development and Livelihood Security.- Chapter13. Agricultural Value Chains: A Cardinal Pillar for Future Development and Management of Farming.- Chapter14. Climate Smart Eco-management of Water and Soil Quality as a Tool for Fish Productivity Enhancement.- Chapter15. Advances in nutrient resource management for fisheries and aquaculture.- Chapter16. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Safety, Health and Welfare in Agriculture and
Book SynopsisThis book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of agricultural biotechnology, agro-food systems and forestry, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on Safety, Health and Welfare in Agriculture and Agro-food Systems (SHWA), held in Ragusa, Italy, on September 15-18, 2021. The papers cover a range of topics such as agricultural assistive technologies, machine milking, animal welfare, sustainable livestock farming, work organization and logistic in agro-food supply chain, agricultural instrumentation and equipment, safety and health in building, agriculture 4.0, automation, occupational health, precision farming, effect of landscapes on human health, environmental safety, rural health, agricultural machinery, ROPS, augmented reality and IoT, cyber security. The contributions included in the book were selected by means of a rigorous peer-review process, and offer an extensive and multidisciplinary overview of interesting solutions in the field of sustainable agriculture.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
Book SynopsisThis book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all, this book provides a contribution towards a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues related to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. This interdisciplinary book supports the efforts to engage a commitment from all fields of science, to work together to provide knowledge that could help to address SDG2 (No hunger) and lead to the promotion of quality of life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security. This book is expected to fill the gap of publications in this field. It gives a special emphasis to a state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable food production. It includes examples of policies and practices case studies, examples of projects, institutional policies, innovative methods and tools and research outputs, which highlight the interdependence between sustainable agriculture and food security issues. It is expected that the “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security” will make the many benefits of sustainable food production clearer and, inter alia, lead to an increase in the emphasis provided to this central theme. Table of ContentsSupporting Sustainable Agriculture.- The concept of sustainable agriculture.- Agriculture-food nexus. The paradox of sustainable development in Mexico.- Prosocial Partnerships - A Scalable Pathway to Sustainable Agricultural Development.- Towards sustainable agriculture in Serbia: Empirical insights from a spatial planning perspective.- Climate adaptive agriculture: A smallholders case study of the Southwestern highlands of Ethiopia.- Differentiated intra-household food utilization in Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality, South Africa.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Food and Agricultural Byproducts as Important
Book SynopsisFood and agricultural by-products are leftovers or wastes from parts of foods, fruits, vegetables and animal sources which are obtained after processing. Agricultural by-products includes peels and rinds from citrus fruits, pineapple, mango, and banana. Other notable ones are pomace from apple, olive, red beet, and those from wine making. Also, whey from milk, straws, hulls, and brans from grains are among top agricultural by-products. These by-products often impact the environment and the social-economic sectors when they are disposed. But with the recent advances in biotechnology and scientific research, scientists have found usefulness in some of these byproducts as sources of valuable nutraceuticals, a term used to refer to chemical entities present in foods that has the propensity to impact health for disease prevention and treatment. This book entitled ‘Food and agricultural by-products as important source of valuable nutraceuticals’ presents detailed information about major agricultural byproducts that are rich in nutraceuticals. The nature and the type of nutraceuticals that they contains and their health promoting benefits were presented. The editors and chapter contributors are renowned experts from key institutions around the globe. This book will be useful to students, teachers, food chemists, nutritionists, nutritional biochemists, food biotechnologists among others. Key features Ø Highlights the health promotion benefits of nutraceuticals Ø Presents information on agrifood by-products as sources of nutraceuticals Ø Discusses functional nutraceuticals from peels, rinds, pomace, hull, bran etc Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Role of Nutraceuticals as Food and Medicine, Types and Sources Abhay Prakash Mishra, Neeti Srivastav, Anita Singh, Manisha Nigam, Raffaele Pezzani, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche and Johra Khan abhaypharmachemhnbgu@gmail.com Chapter 2: Potato Peels as a Source of Nutraceutics Barbara Sawicka, Dominika Skiba, and Piotr Barbaś barbara.sawicka@up.lublin.pl Chapter 3: Red Beet Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals Muhammad Afzaal, Farhan Saeed, Aftab Ahmed, Muhammad Armghan Khalid, Fakhar Islam, Ali Ikram, Muzamal Hussain, Faisal Fareed, Waqas Anjum muhammadafzaal@gcuf.edu.pk Chapter 4: Mango Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals Intan Soraya Che Sulaiman, Azham Mohamad and Isharudin Md. Isa chesoraya007@yahoo.com Chapter 5: Apple Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals Shahira M. Ezzat, Maha Salama, Dina El Kersh, Mohamed Salem shahira.ezzat@pharma.cu.edu.eg Chapter 6: Olive Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals Selma Hamimed and Abdelwaheb Chatti alma.hamimed@fsb.rnu.tn Chapter 7: Orange Peel as a Source of Nutraceuticals Anum Nazir, Nizwa Itrat, Aleena Shahid, Zain Mushtaq, Surajudeen Abiola Abdulrahman, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Babatunde Oluwafemi Adetuyi, Johra Khan, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche, Pere-Ebi Yabrade Toloyai Anum.Nazir@tuf.edu.pk Chapter 8: Pineapple Fruit Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals O.C.U. Adumanya oadumanya@gmail.com Chapter 9: Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam) Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals Pass Chidiebere Chijindu passchijindu@gmail.com Chapter 10: Pawpaw Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals Odoh Uchenna Estella, Chukwuma Micheal Onyegbunam, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Theodora Mba, Peculiar Feenna Onyekere uchenna.odoh@unn.edu.ng Chapter 11: Nutritional and Nutraceutical Potentials of Residual Cakes from Seeds of Moringa (Moringa oleifera L.), Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.) and Hibiscus Flower (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) after Oil Extraction Dairon Iglesias Guevara, Claudia Chávez Hernández, Sirley González Laime, Ariel Martínez García, Juan Abreu Payrol japayrol@gmail.com Chapter 12: Whey Protein from Milk as a Source of Nutraceuticals Chinaza Godswill Awuchi awuchichinaza@gmail.com Chapter 13: Corn Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals Santwana Palai and Shyam Sundar Kesh palaisantwana@gmail.com Chapter 14: Sorghum Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals Daniel Okwudili Nnamani, Pascal Chukwuemeka Aleke and Peculiar Feenna Onyekere peculiar.onyekere@unn.edu.ng Chapter 15: Rice Husk as a Source of Nutraceuticals Kirankumar Shivasharanappa, Jayashree V. Hanchinalmath, Sooraj Shivakumar, Sonal Kudva, Sathwik C. Jain, Manoj Girish, D. G. W. M. H. M. M. Wijekoon, Rhishika Dutta, T. Pramod, Sharangouda J. Patil kkwanegaon@gmail.com Chapter 16: Byproducts of Groundnut as Source of Nutraceuticals Neelma Munir, Maria Hasnain, Maria Hanif, Surajudeen Abiola Abdulrahman, Chukwuebuka Egbuna neelma.munir@yahoo.com Chapter 17: Banana Peel as a Source of Nutraceuticals Babatunde Oluwafemi Adetuyi, Adebanke E. Ogundipe, Olubanke Olujoke Ogunlana, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Odoh Uchenna Estella, Abhay Prakash Mishra, Muhammad Akram, Raghu Ram Achar badetuyi@gmail.com
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Ibidem-Verlag Health Power Einfach Gesund Gesund essen Gesund
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